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Supporting the World’s Most Powerful Rockets for Deep Space Exploration

On July 21, Futuramic was at the Northrop Grumman’s Promontory, Utah, test facility to witness the SLS FSB-2 Static Test. “Northrop Grumman Corporation and NASA successfully conducted a full-scale static fire of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket motor, known as Flight Support Booster-2. The five-segment solid rocket booster is the...

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Watch NASA Rollout it’s SLS Rocket for the Artemis I Wet Dress Rehearsal

In the early morning hours on June 6th, Futuramic was at the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to witness NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems transporting the Space Launch System megarocket rocket and the Orion Spacecraft from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to Launch Complex 39B for the Artemis I wet dress rehearsal...

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Installation of the New NASA Exploration Upper Stage Begins

Futuramic’s installation of the new Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) tooling is underway at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility. The EUS, part of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1B configuration for Artemis IV, will provide power to send astronauts in NASA’s Orion Spacecraft along with heavy cargo to the Moon and...

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January 31, 2019

2019 Sees NASA’s SLS Getting Closer To Take Off

NASA’s Space Launch System will be the most powerful rocket we’ve ever built. When completed, SLS will enable astronauts to begin their journey to explore destinations far into the solar system. Over the past few months NASA has been hard at work moving and assembling the largest pieces of structural...

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NASA’s Project Mars Competition is now OPEN for entries!

Join NASA’s Orion and Space Launch Systems teams and SciArt Exchange in visualizing humans venturing into deep space, to the Moon and onward to Mars. Interested college students and early career professionals worldwide are invited to submit short films and posters about this mission, what astronauts may see, and their dreams...

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February 8, 2018

Seen in WIRED Magazine

Over the last five years Futuramic has made numerous friction stir weld tools, assembly tools, platforms, overhead lift devices and structural simulators for use by The Boeing Company in the construction of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana (MAF). Many of...

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NASA Spaceflight Partner Highlight: Futuramic

Article From NASA SLS Highlights March 2013 PDF Originally Posted: April 5, 2013 Every month, SLS Highlights turns the spotlight on one of the industry partners helping to create the largest rocket ever built for human space exploration. In this issue, we profile Futuramic Tool & Engineering of Warren, Mich.,...