NASA space launch vehicles

partially reusable launch system and space plane developed by NASA (1981–2011)

The Space Launch System (SLS) is an American two-stage super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used by NASA. The primary launch vehicle for the Artemis program, SLS is designed to launch the four-person Orion spacecraft for missions to the Moon, on a trans-lunar injection trajectory. The rocket first launched on November 16, 2022, carrying the uncrewed Artemis I mission. Its first crewed launch was for the Artemis II lunar flyby on April 1, 2026, becoming the second launch vehicle to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit (LEO), after NASA's Saturn V of the Apollo program, and the third to ever be planned to fly humans past LEO, after the N1.

family of American missiles and space launch vehicles

family of American rocket boosters

American rocket family

family of rocket stages which can be used as a space tug

solid propellant rocket used to launch NASA's Space Shuttle

family of American rockets

1960s American crewed suborbital rocket

American expendable launch vehicle

solid-fuel booster rocket used during Project Mercury

1962 concept for a reusable, sea-launched rocket

series of proposed rocket designs

The Nike Apache, also known as Argo B-13, was a two-stage sounding rocket developed by Aerolab, later Atlantic Research, for use by the United States Air Force and NASA. It became the standard NASA sounding rocket and was launched over 600 times between 1961 and 1978.

American rocket type

vehicle derived from the Space Shuttle

family of launch vehicles developed by Astra

Shuttle-Centaur was a version of the Centaur upper stage rocket designed to be carried aloft inside the Space Shuttle and used to launch satellites into high Earth orbits or probes into deep space. Two variants were developed: Centaur G-Prime, which was planned to launch the Galileo and Ulysses robotic probes to Jupiter, and Centaur G, a shortened version planned for use with United States Department of Defense Milstar satellites and the Magellan Venus probe. The powerful Centaur upper stage allowed for heavier deep space probes, and for them to reach Jupiter sooner, prolonging the operational

NASA vertical landing and takeoff test vehicle