NASA Releases New Video Highlighting Manufacturing Progress for Artemis II
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| Description | This video highlights the latest progress in manufacturing the second core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the world’s most powerful rocket, for the first crewed mission of the agency’s Artemis program. Together with four RS-25 engines, the rocket’s massive 212-foot-tall core stage — the largest stage NASA has ever built — and its twin solid rocket boosters will produce 8.8 million pounds of thrust to send NASA’s Orion spacecraft, astronauts and supplies beyond Earth’s orbit to the Moon. The core stage and its five major structures are manufactured and assembled at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. With the first core stage for Artemis I, the first mission of SLS and Orion, undergoing Green Run testing at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, Michoud teams are manufacturing and assembling the core stage for Artemis II, the first crewed mission of Orion and SLS. NASA is working to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024. The agency’s SLS rocket offer |
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| Date | 2020-04-06 |
| Source | images.nasa.gov |