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NASA Prepares Artemis I SLS Rocket State for Move to Pegasus Barge
— Teams at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans moved the core stage, complete with
all four RS-25 engines, for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to Building 110 for final shipping
preparations on January 1. The SLS core stage includes state-of-the-art
avionics, propulsion systems, and two colossal propellant tanks that
collectively hold 733,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen to power
its four RS-25 engines. The completed stage, which will provide more than 2
million pounds of thrust to help power the first Artemis mission to the Moon,
will be shipped via the agency’s Pegasus barge from Michoud to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, later this month. Once
at Stennis, the Artemis rocket stage will be loaded into the B-2 Test Stand for
the core stage Green Run test series. The comprehensive test campaign will
progressively bring the entire core stage, including its avionics and engines,
to life for the first time to verify the stage is fit for flight ahead of the
launch of Artemis I. NASA is working to land the first woman and next man on
the Moon by 2024. SLS is part of NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration, along with Orion and the Gateway in orbit
around the Moon. SLS will be the most powerful rocket in the world and will
send astronauts in the Orion spacecraft farther into space than ever before. No
other rocket is capable of carrying astronauts in Orion around the Moon.
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