Author Topic: New book: The Space Launch System (Read 8974 times)

Blackstar · « **on:** 08/23/2025 07:59 pm »

https://www.amazon.com/Space-Launch-System-Heavy-Lift-Springer/dp/3031926544?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PX9VjM1fijTnprSPZ2hEKA.gXr-zdAtsleOl-K5nZuH5Qz9Ny_bDk72NxlNb--Gagk&dib_tag=se&keywords=The+Space+Launch+System:+NASA%27s+Heavy-Lift+Rocket+and+the+Artemis+I+Mission&qid=1755790843&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=collectspace&linkId=f4361ae015d1204be3620b1bd6832c8c&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

The Space Launch System: NASA's Heavy-Lift Rocket and the Artemis I Mission
by Anthony Young

When NASA’s SLS-1 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39-B for the Artemis I mission in early morning hours of November 16, 2022, it culminated more than a decade of intense effort by NASA, its prime contractors and thousands of subcontracted companies across the United States and Europe.

This book shares the exciting story of NASA searching for the best human spaceflight vehicle, after the Space Shuttle era, to start a new path of exploration back to the Moon and later to Mars. It covers the preliminary Ares I and Ares V designs from Project Constellation that formed the foundation for SLS. Then in separate chapters it covers the components of the SLS that include the Core Stage with RS-25 engines, the Solid Rocket Boosters, the Upper Stage, and the rocket’s payload: the Orion capsule and Service Module. The final chapter is devoted to the successful Artemis I mission.

This book draws from an abundance of available NASA and contractor documents, special interviews, and illustrated photographs in both color and black and white. You will read about the detailed story of the Space Launch System's design engineering, politics, funding battles, and records regarding the manufacturing of NASA's most powerful rocket that will ultimately launch a new era in human exploration beyond Earth's orbit.

Paperback, 219 pages
Springer, 3 July 2025
ISBN-10: ‎3031926544
ISBN-13: ‎978-3031926549

Blackstar · « **Reply #1 on:** 09/04/2025 08:40 pm »

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/5046/1

Review: The Space Launch System
by Jeff Foust
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

The Space Launch System: NASA’s Heavy-Lift Rocket and the Artemis I Mission
by Anthony Young
Springer Praxis, 2025
paperback, 220 pp., illus.
ISBN 978-3-031-92654-9
US$32.99

For a brief time this spring, it looked like the end was coming for the Space Launch System. The administration’s fiscal year 2026 budget proposal released in May called for ending both SLS and Orion after the Artemis 3 mission. The vehicles, the proposal stated, would be replaced with “more cost-effective commercial systems that would support more ambitious subsequent lunar missions.”

rdale · « **Reply #2 on:** 09/24/2025 11:24 pm »

Obviously books on future space flight will never match Jenkins and others simply because the data is not nearly as open... Given that - this is a book you must grab if you want to see the compiled story of SLS!

As Jeff noted - the editing is SURPRISINGLY sloppy for a Springer-Praxis book. And it does get a little long winded with copying press releases and the like now and then. But many NSFers make an appearance, and while the editing does catch your attention the content is still valid.

I highly recommend.