- NASA ID: MAF_20190903_CS1 ES move to 110-56
- Center: MAF
- Date Created: 2019-09-03
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Technicians
at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans moved the engine
section for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to another part of
the facility on Sept. 3 to prepare it for joining to the rest of the
rocket’s core stage. The engine section, which comprises the lowest
portion of the 212-foot-tall stage, is the last major component to be
horizontally integrated to the core stage. Michoud crews completed
assembly on the flight hardware that will be used for Artemis I, the
first lunar mission of SLS and NASA’s Orion spacecraft, on Aug. 29. NASA
and Boeing engineers removed the scaffolding surrounding the hardware
to use a special tool to properly position the engine section for its
attachment to the rest of the stage. The core stage’s two liquid
propellant tanks and four RS-25 engines will produce more than 2 million
pounds of thrust to send the SLS rocket and Orion on the Artemis lunar
missions. The engine section houses the four RS-25 engines and includes
vital systems for mounting, controlling and delivering fuel form the
propellant tanks to the rocket’s engines.
Offering more payload mass,
volume capability and energy to speed missions through space, the SLS
rocket, along with NASA’s Gateway in lunar orbit and Orion, is part of
NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration and the Artemis lunar
program. No other rocket is capable of carrying astronauts in Orion
around the Moon in a single mission.
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