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Preparations are underway for Load Test #1 on the Interim Cryogenic Propulsive Stage Umbilical (ICPSU) arm for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) at Coastal Steel in Cocoa, Florida. The test will consist of applying six vertical loads and eight horizontal loads onto the truss in the retracted position to simulate the effects of a launch on the structure. A load test tower was designed and fabricated at Coastal Steel for the test. Engineers and technicians from NASA Kennedy Space Center and Coastal will apply the loads by hanging weights off the ICPSU structure. Vertical loads will be applied by hanging the weights directly, and horizontal loads will be applied by a rope that wraps over an adjacent pipe on the load test tower. The ICPSU is one of the umbilical arms that will be attached to the mobile launcher. The umbilical will be located at the about the 240-foot-level of the mobile launcher and will supply fuel, oxidizer, pneumatics, hazard gas leak detection, electrical commodities and environmental control systems to the interim cryogenic propulsive stage of the SLS rocket during launch. Photo credit: Daniel Casper
A crane and rigging lines are used to install the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage Umbilical (ICPSU) high up on the mobile launcher (ML) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The last of the large umbilicals to be installed, the ICPSU will provide super-cooled hydrogen and liquid oxygen to the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket's interim cryogenic propulsion stage, or upper stage, at T-0 for Exploration Mission-1. The umbilical is located at about the 240-foot-level of the mobile launcher and will supply fuel, oxidizer, gaseous helium, hazardous gas leak detection, electrical commodities and environment control systems to the upper stage of the SLS rocket during launch. Exploration Ground Systems is overseeing installation of the umbilicals on the ML. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
Viewed from the 274-foot level mobile launcher (ML), technicians help install the Orion crew access arm (CAA) to the tower at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA's Exploration Ground Systems organization has been overseeing installation of umbilicals and other launch accessories on the 380-foot-tall ML in preparation for stacking the first launch of the Space launch System (SLS), rocket with an Orion spacecraft. The CAA is designed to rotate from its retracted position and line up with Orion's crew hatch providing entry for astronauts and technicians.
Photo credit: NASA/Gary Villa
Members of the media visited the International Space Station Processing Facility "high bay" on August 11, 2017 to view the Space Launch System's Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS). Representative from NASA and Boeing were on hand to answer questions.
The Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) is the first segment for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to arrive at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is currently in the Space Station Processing Facility. The ICPS will be located at the very top of the SLS, just below the Orion capsule. During Exploration Mission-1, NASA's first test mission of the SLS rocket and Orion, the ICPS, filled with liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, will give Orion the big in-space push needed to fly beyond the Moon before returning to Earth. The ICPS was designed and built by ULA in Decatur, Alabama, and Boeing in Huntsville, Alabama.
(Photos by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
The future of NASA space flight, the Space Launch System, on the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
Viewed from the 274-foot level mobile launcher (ML), a crane positions the Orion crew access arm (CAA) so it can be attached to the tower that will support the Space launch System (SLS) rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA's Exploration Ground Systems organization has been overseeing installation of umbilicals and other launch accessories on the 380-foot-tall ML in preparation for stacking the first launch of the SLS, rocket with an Orion spacecraft. The CAA is designed to rotate from its retracted position and line up with Orion's crew hatch providing entry for astronauts and technicians.
Photo credit: NASA/Bill White
The Orion vehicle that will bring astronauts around the Moon and back for the first time in over 50 years was recently tested in a refurbished altitude chamber used during the Apollo era.
Engineers tested Orion in a near-vacuum environment designed to simulate the space conditions the vehicle will travel through during its mission towards the Moon. Teams emptied the altitude chamber of air, a process taking up to a day, to create a very low-pressure environment over 2000 times lower and more vacuum-like than inside your vacuum cleaner. Orion remained in the altitude chamber’s low-pressure environment for around a week, with engineering teams monitoring the spacecraft’s systems and collecting data to qualify Orion for safely flying the Artemis II crew through the harsh environment of space.
The next step for Orion will take place after the summer: the installation of its four, seven-metre long solar arrays that the European Service Module (ESM) will use to power the vehicle and its crew of four towards the Moon and back during the Artemis II mission.
Rachid Amekrane, Project Manager for Orion ESM at Airbus, stands next to the Orion spacecraft inside the altitude chamber at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Next to his hand are four nozzles; these are some of the reaction control system engines of the ESM. In total, there are 33 engines on the ESM: 24 reaction control system engines, eight auxiliary thrusters and a Shuttle-era main engine.
Credits: NASA-E. Peters
Models of the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft are displayed during a panel discussion on deep space eploration at the Newseum on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Jay Westcott)
NASA and ATK engineers complete structural loads testing on the Space Launch System (SLS) booster forward skirt at ATK’s facility in Promontory, Utah. Structural loads tests are performed to ensure each piece of hardware can endure loads without any adverse effects to the vehicle, or most importantly, to the crew.
Image credit: ATK
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The Orion Stage Adapter (OSA) is moved out of NASA's Super Guppy aircraft onto a special payload handler at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The OSA is the second flight-hardware section of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to arrive at Kennedy. The OSA will connect the Orion spacecraft to the upper part of the SLS, the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS). Both the OSA and ICPS are being stored for processing in the center's Space Station Processing Facility in preparation for Exploration Mission-1, the first uncrewed, integrated launch of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Hello Lego friends,
A new era of human space exploration for NASA dawns with the Space Launch System, or SLS. This super heavy-lift launch vehicle will take the Orion spacecraft and its crew of up to four astronauts beyond Earth’s orbit, enabling missions to the Moon, Mars and deep-space destinations.
Designed to reach a record-breaking speed of Mach 23 and rated for payloads of 26 metric tons, this variant will complete the first three Artemis Lunar missions.
At 1:110 scale, our product idea includes a total of 2020 Lego bricks and has three key sections.
Core stage
•Four RS-25 engines.
•External fuel line.
•Two solid boosters.
•Launch vehicle stage adaptor.
•1,953 bricks and 30 decals.
•Diameter: 10 studs, 8 cm or 3.14 inches.
•Rocket & Boosters width: 19 studs, 15.2 cm or 2.04 inches.
•Height: 126 studs, 100.8 cm or 39.68 inches.
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Orion Crew Vehicle
•Crew module.
•Service module - with collapsed and extended solar arrays.
•Launch abort system.
•Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage.
•71 bricks and 19 decals.
•Diameter: 4 studs, 3.2 cm or 1.25 inches.
•Height: 15 studs, 12 cm or 4.72 inches.
•Wingspan: 15 studs, 12 cm or 4.72 inches.
Optional Display Stand
•Displays SLS ready for launch at Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39B.
•222 bricks.
•Width: 24 studs, 19.2 cm or 7.55 inches.
•Length: 28 studs, 22.4 cm or 8.81 inches.
•Height: 10 studs, 8 cm or 3.14 inches.
This collaborative project was created by Saturn V co-designer Valerie Roche (Whatsuptoday) and her SpaceX Collection/ Starship & New Glenn Co-Designer Matthew Nolan, along with co-designer of SpaceX Starship Mark Nolan.
Please, visite our Lego Ideas project: ideas.lego.com/projects/e72800b7-14d6-40b4-b9f1-d9a60efc9e45
Have it fun and enjoy it!
Marcie Nolan, Matthew Nolan & Valérie Roche
NASA Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson follows operations at her console in Firing Room 1 at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Control Center during a countdown simulation for Exploration Mission-1. It was the agency's first simulation of a portion of the countdown for the first launch of a Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft that will eventually take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit to destinations such as the Moon and Mars.
Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
NASA's Super Guppy aircraft glides to a stop at the Shuttle Landing Facility at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Super Guppy is carrying the Orion Stage Adapter (OSA), the second flight-hardware section of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that has arrived at Kennedy. The OSA will connect the Orion spacecraft to the upper part of the SLS rocket, the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS). Both the OSA and ICPS are being stored for processing in the center's Space Station Processing Facility in preparation for Exploration Mission-1, the first uncrewed, integrated launch of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. . Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
The Space Launch System (SLS) program heralds the arrival of the SLS core stage with a symbolic “passing of the baton” to NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) on April 28, 2021, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking the transition into final preparations for flight. Journeying from NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi aboard the Pegasus barge, the core stage arrived at the Florida spaceport on April 27. It is the final piece of Artemis hardware to arrive at Kennedy and will be offloaded and moved to the Vehicle Assembly Building, where it will be prepared for integration atop the mobile launcher with the completed stack of solid rocket boosters ahead of the Artemis I launch. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will test SLS and Orion as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon. Photo credit: NASA/Sam Lott
Master Console Operators Andrea Oneill, left and David Walsh, monitor operations from their positions in Firing Room 1 at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Control Center during a countdown simulation for Exploration Mission-1. It was the agency's first simulation of a portion of the countdown for the first launch of a Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft that will eventually take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit to destinations such as the Moon and Mars.
Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
The Orion Stage Adapter (OSA) is moved out of NASA's Super Guppy aircraft onto a special payload handler at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The OSA is the second flight-hardware section of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to arrive at Kennedy. The OSA will connect the Orion spacecraft to the upper part of the SLS, the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS). Both the OSA and ICPS are being stored for processing in the center's Space Station Processing Facility in preparation for Exploration Mission-1, the first uncrewed, integrated launch of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
An artist's rendering of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS). Boeing is the prime contractor responsible for the SLS cryogenic stages and avionics.
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As Olympic athletes converge on London with dreams of winning gold in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, NASA is also setting records while testing the J-2X powerpack at the Stennis Space Center. The first time was June 8, when engineers went the distance and set the Test Complex A record with a 1,150-second firing of the developmental powerpack assembly. On July 24, engineers surpassed that record with a 1,350-second test of the engine component on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis. The powerpack is a system of components on the top portion of the J-2X engine. On the complete J-2X engine, the powerpack feeds the thrust chamber, which produces the engine fire and thrust. The advantage of testing the powerpack without the thrust chamber is to operate over a wide range of conditions to understand safe limits.
The July 24 test specifically gathered data on performance of the liquid oxygen and fuel pumps during extreme conditions. The test data provides critical information for continued development of the turbopump for use on the J-2X engine, the first human-rated liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen rocket engine to be developed in four decades. The J-2X is being built by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
The J-2X engine will power the upper-stage of a planned two-stage Space Launch System, or SLS. The SLS will launch NASA's Orion spacecraft and other payloads, and provide an entirely new capability for human exploration beyond low Earth orbit. Designed to be safe, affordable and flexible for crew and cargo missions, the SLS will continue America's journey of discovery and exploration to destinations including nearby asteroids, Lagrange points, the moon and ultimately, Mars.
Credit: NASA/SSC
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The core stage for NASA's first Artemis mission to the Moon moved to the agency’s Pegasus barge on Jan. 8, 2020. The 212-foot Space Launch System rocket stage, built by NASA and lead contractor Boeing at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, rolled the onto Pegasus, which shipped it to NASA's Stennis Space Center on Jan. 12. Here, it will undergo a comprehensive series of engineering tests called the Green Run. After Green Run is complete, the core stage will be sent to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where it will join with SLS's giant boosters and the Orion spacecraft to launch into space on Artemis I.
Image credit: Steven Seipel
A liquid oxygen tank confidence article for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, completes final welding on the Vertical Assembly Center at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
A liquid oxygen tank confidence article for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, completes final welding on the Vertical Assembly Center at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
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A 250-ton crane is used to lower the second half of the K-level work platforms for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket into High Bay 3 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The platform will be secured about 86 feet above the VAB floor, on tower E of the high bay. The K work platforms will provide access to the SLS core stage and solid rocket boosters during processing and stacking operations on the mobile launcher. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is overseeing upgrades and modifications to High Bay 3 to support processing of the SLS and Orion spacecraft. A total of 10 levels of new platforms, 20 platform halves altogether, will surround the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis
NASA's Super Guppy aircraft taxies onto the tarmac after touching down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Super Guppy is carrying the Orion Stage Adapter (OSA), the second flight-hardware section of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that has arrived at Kennedy. The OSA will connect the Orion spacecraft to the upper part of the SLS rocket, the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS). Both the OSA and ICPS are being stored for processing in the center's Space Station Processing Facility in preparation for Exploration Mission-1, the first uncrewed, integrated launch of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. . Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
The primary hardware infrastructure for the System Integration Test Facility is being constructed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The configuration of the structure is designed to functionally represent the forward skirt, intertank and engine section of the SLS core stage, where avionics components are located. The structure supports the mounting of flight-equivalent avionics boxes and flight-length cables, in addition to simulation and test system components.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC
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On September 8, 2018, the ML moved into High Bay 3 in NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building, where it will stay 7 months for fit tests. (Pics: Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
Exploration Ground Systems’ mobile launcher departs from Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on June 27, 2019, for its final solo trek to Launch Complex 39B in Florida. The mobile launcher departed from the VAB at midnight for the 10-hour journey to the pad, where it will remain for the summer, undergoing final testing and checkouts. Its next roll to the pad will be with the agency’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft in preparation for the launch of Artemis 1. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
A 325-ton crane begins to lift the first half of the K-level work platforms up from High Bay 4 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The platform will be lifted over the transfer aisle, lowered into High Bay 3 and secured into position on tower E, about 86 feet above the floor. The K work platforms will provide access to NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and solid rocket boosters during processing and stacking operations on the mobile launcher. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is overseeing upgrades and modifications to High Bay 3 to support processing of the SLS and Orion spacecraft. A total of 10 levels of new platforms, 20 platform halves altogether, will surround the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft and provide access for testing and processing. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
A heavy-lift crane slowly lifts the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage Umbilical (ICPSU) high up for installation on the tower of the mobile launcher (ML) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The last of the large umbilicals to be installed, the ICPSU will provide super-cooled hydrogen and liquid oxygen to the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket's interim cryogenic propulsion stage, or upper stage, at T-0 for Exploration Mission-1. The umbilical is located at about the 240-foot-level of the mobile launcher and will supply fuel, oxidizer, gaseous helium, hazardous gas leak detection, electrical commodities and environment control systems to the upper stage of the SLS rocket during launch. Exploration Ground Systems is overseeing installation of the umbilicals on the ML. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
After successfully arriving at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B, Exploration Ground Systems’ mobile launcher continues its journey atop crawler-transporter 2 up to the pad surface on June 28, 2019. The mobile launcher began its final solo trek to the pad at midnight on June 27, departing from NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building. The mobile launcher will remain at the pad over the summer, undergoing final testing and checkouts. Its next roll to the pad will be with the agency’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion in preparation for the launch of Artemis 1. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
An adapter is lowered onto a ULA Delta IV test article for a fit check June 26 at one of Marshall's testing facilities. The adapter will join the Orion spacecraft to the ULA Delta IV rocket for Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) next year.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC/Fred Deaton
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Space Launch System Flickr photoset:
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The first of 10 flight segments for the two solid-rocket boosters of NASA’s Space Launch System has been cast at Orbital ATK’s facility in Promontory, Utah. Casting involves filling the insulated metal case with propellant and allowing it to solidify or “cure” for several days.
The hardware, which is the aft segment, will eventually be integrated with four other segments to make up one of the two, five-segment solid rocket boosters for the first flight of SLS in 2018. During this flight, called Exploration Mission-1, SLS will carry an unmanned Orion spacecraft to travel thousands of miles beyond the moon over the course of about a three-week mission and help NASA prepare for missions to deep space, including Mars. Orbital ATK is the prime contractor for the boosters.
For more information about NASA's Space Launch System, click here.
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At NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Orion's newly completed pressure vessel for the Artemis III mission is lifted out of the welding tool. The pressure vessel is the primary structure for Orion's crew module, joined together using state-of-the-art welding by technicians from lead contractor Lockheed Martin.
Image credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker
At NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Orion's newly completed pressure vessel for the Artemis III mission is lifted out of the welding tool. The pressure vessel is the primary structure for Orion's crew module, joined together using state-of-the-art welding by technicians from lead contractor Lockheed Martin.
Image credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker
At NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Orion's newly completed pressure vessel for the Artemis III mission is lifted out of the welding tool. The pressure vessel is the primary structure for Orion's crew module, joined together using state-of-the-art welding by technicians from lead contractor Lockheed Martin.
Image credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker
Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the first half of the J-level work platforms for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was lifted into position for installation in High Bay 3. In view below is one of the K-level work platforms that was previously installed. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is overseeing upgrades and modifications to High Bay 3 to support processing of the SLS and Orion spacecraft. A total of 10 levels of new platforms, 20 platform halves altogether, will surround the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft and provide access for testing and processing. Photo credit: NASA/Glenn Benson
The twin towers of a 215-foot-tall structural test stand for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), the world's most powerful rocket for human space exploration, take shape at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. After construction is completed, hydraulic cylinders at Test Stand 4693 will push and pull the liquid hydrogen tank of the SLS’s massive core stage to subject the tank and hardware to the same loads and stresses they will endure during launch. Test Stand 4693 is being built in Marshall's West Test Area on the foundation of the stand where the Apollo Saturn V F-1 engine was tested during the 1960s. (Photo courtesy Brasfield & Gorrie)
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A Kennedy Space Center employee walks near NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 at Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39B area in Florida on June 28, 2019. The crawler-transporter 2 successfully carried Exploration Ground Systems’ mobile launcher to the pad from the Vehicle Assembly Building, departing at midnight on June 27. On June 28, the mobile launcher continued its journey up to the pad surface, where it will remain for the summer, undergoing final testing and checkouts. Its next roll to the pad will be with the agency’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion in preparation for the launch of Artemis 1. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
Technicians and engineers with Exploration Ground Systems at the NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida recently tested the Crew Access Arm (CAA) that was added on the mobile launcher being prepared to support the agency’s Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. The crucial test confirmed the functionality and integrity of the CAA. The CAA is designed to rotate from its retracted position and line up with Orion's crew hatch. The arm will provide entry and emergency egress for astronauts and technicians into and out of the Orion spacecraft.Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Boeing is building the core stages for NASA’s next heavy-lift rocket, the 321-foot tall Space Launch System, at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
Work continues as Boeing builds the core stage for the Space Launch System, using massive friction stir weld tooling, such as this Vertical Weld Center, which stacks rocket segments, then welds them together.
LEARN MORE - www.boeing.com/space/space-launch-system/
Lockheed Martin technicians at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, complete the final weld on the pressure vessel of the Orion crew module for Exploration Mission-2, the first flight of Orion with astronauts which will carry them farther into the solar system than ever before.
After successfully arriving at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B, Exploration Ground Systems’ mobile launcher continues its journey atop crawler-transporter 2 up to the pad surface on June 28, 2019. The mobile launcher began its final solo trek to the pad at midnight on June 27, departing from NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building. The mobile launcher will remain at the pad over the summer, undergoing final testing and checkouts. Its next roll to the pad will be with the agency’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion in preparation for the launch of Artemis 1. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
The core stage for NASA's first Artemis mission to the Moon moved to the agency’s Pegasus barge on Jan. 8, 2020. The 212-foot Space Launch System rocket stage, built by NASA and lead contractor Boeing at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, rolled the onto Pegasus, which shipped it to NASA's Stennis Space Center on Jan. 12. Here, it will undergo a comprehensive series of engineering tests called the Green Run. After Green Run is complete, the core stage will be sent to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where it will join with SLS's giant boosters and the Orion spacecraft to launch into space on Artemis I.
Image credit: Eric Bordelon
Artemis II reached a significant milestone as teams fully installed all four RS-25 engines to the 212-foot-tall core stage for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. During Artemis II, the four engines, arranged like legs on a chair at the bottom of the mega rocket, will fire for eight minutes at launch, producing more than 2 million pounds of thrust to send the Artemis II crew around the Moon. Boeing is the lead contractor for the SLS core stage. Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies company, is the lead contractor for the SLS engines. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the SLS Program and Michoud.
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Hello Lego friends,
A new era of human space exploration for NASA dawns with the Space Launch System, or SLS. This super heavy-lift launch vehicle will take the Orion spacecraft and its crew of up to four astronauts beyond Earth’s orbit, enabling missions to the Moon, Mars and deep-space destinations.
Designed to reach a record-breaking speed of Mach 23 and rated for payloads of 26 metric tons, this variant will complete the first three Artemis Lunar missions.
At 1:110 scale, our product idea includes a total of 2020 Lego bricks and has three key sections.
Core stage
•Four RS-25 engines.
•External fuel line.
•Two solid boosters.
•Launch vehicle stage adaptor.
•1,953 bricks and 30 decals.
•Diameter: 10 studs, 8 cm or 3.14 inches.
•Rocket & Boosters width: 19 studs, 15.2 cm or 2.04 inches.
•Height: 126 studs, 100.8 cm or 39.68 inches.
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Orion Crew Vehicle
•Crew module.
•Service module - with collapsed and extended solar arrays.
•Launch abort system.
•Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage.
•71 bricks and 19 decals.
•Diameter: 4 studs, 3.2 cm or 1.25 inches.
•Height: 15 studs, 12 cm or 4.72 inches.
•Wingspan: 15 studs, 12 cm or 4.72 inches.
Optional Display Stand
•Displays SLS ready for launch at Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39B.
•222 bricks.
•Width: 24 studs, 19.2 cm or 7.55 inches.
•Length: 28 studs, 22.4 cm or 8.81 inches.
•Height: 10 studs, 8 cm or 3.14 inches.
This collaborative project was created by Saturn V co-designer Valerie Roche (Whatsuptoday) and her SpaceX Collection/ Starship & New Glenn Co-Designer Matthew Nolan, along with co-designer of SpaceX Starship Mark Nolan.
Please, visite our Lego Ideas project: ideas.lego.com/projects/e72800b7-14d6-40b4-b9f1-d9a60efc9e45
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A test version of the universal stage adapter for NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket has been on the move at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and is now ready for testing. Following its delivery to Marshall by barge from nearby Decatur, teams moved and installed it onto the test stand in Building 4619 on March 12. Standing 32.4 feet tall and measuring 27.6 feet in diameter at its largest point, the universal stage adapter will connect NASA's Orion spacecraft to the core stage and provide additional cargo space for the future Block 1B configuration of the mega-rocket, beginning with Artemis IV. Leidos is the lead contractor for the adapter, which is a first-time build for the SLS rocket. For more information about SLS, visit www.nasa.gov/sls
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Boeing Fabrication Specialists Guillermo Ladut (left) and Todd Duhon consult on calibration for the Gore Weld Tool that will be used to build the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s cryogenic stage at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The tool will be used to build the SLS, scheduled to launch in 2017.
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A truck sprays water in front of NASA’s upgraded crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) to control dust as it begins the trek from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Launch Pad 39B to test recently completed upgrades and modifications for NASA’s journey to Mars. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Kennedy oversaw upgrades to the crawler in the VAB. The crawler will carry the mobile launcher with Orion atop the Space Launch System rocket to Pad 39B for Exploration Mission-1, scheduled for 2018. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (left), accompanied by Jacobs and Exploration Ground Systems employees, views Artemis I booster hardware inside the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 27, 2020. Manufactured by Northrop Grumman in Utah, the boosters for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket are now undergoing prelaunch processing at Kennedy. During launch, the twin boosters will provide more than 75 percent of the total SLS thrust. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will test the Orion spacecraft and SLS as an integrated system ahead of crewed flights to the Moon. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
The adapter and a United Launch Alliance Delta IV test article were successfully connected during a fit check at the Marshall Center. (NASA/MSFC)
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In celebration of Women’s History Month, the "Women of Launch Control” working in Exploration Ground Systems take time out of their Artemis I launch planning to pose for a photo in Firing Room 1 of the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 4, 2020. Artemis I will be the first integrated flight test of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket, the system that will ultimately land the first woman and the next man on the Moon. Photo credit: NASA/Glenn Benson