Space Launch System Completed Major Assembly Milestone For Rocket’s Core Stage
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| Description | On May 30, 2019, NASA and Boeing technicians completed the second of three major activities to join the large structural parts of the core stage for NASA’s deep space rocket, the Space Launch System. Now, four of the five major core stage structures -- most of the massive 212-foot stage-- is assembled. Boeing and NASA will add the engine section and the four RS-25 engines to complete assembly of the core stage. This stage and its four RS-25 engines will produce 2 million pounds of thrust to help send the Artemis 1 Mission, the first integrated flight of SLS and the Orion spacecraft to the Moon. Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans moved the liquid hydrogen tank to the final assembly area at the facility to horizontally connect the massive propellant tank to the top of the core stage, which is made up of the forward skirt, the liquid oxygen tank and the intertank. They moved the forward structure to the final assembly area earlier this spring. Together, the forward s |
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| Date | 2019-06-13 |
| Source | images.nasa.gov |