For more than ten years, NASA and its partners have been developing the Space Launch System (SLS), and it was rolled out yesterday from NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building for slightly different tests.
After the tests are completed, the SLS will be returned to the hangar for further modifications that may be required. After that, it is believed that it will be ready for use to send NASA’s Artemis 1 mission into space. Artemis 1 is an unmanned lunar mission that will send an Orion capsule to the moon, which will then enter into orbit around it.
Artemis 1 will be the first of NASA’s lunar missions aimed at landing a male and female astronaut on the Moon within a few years. Artemis 1 is delayed, like the rest of the Artemis program. Exactly when NASA plans to send the SLS and the Orion capsule into space is not yet known. It is believed that this will happen as soon as possible sometime this summer.
The launch of the SLS yesterday at the Kennedy Space Center took about 11 hours and it was a rather slow story. Here above you can check the timelapse as it goes faster. In connection with the show, NASA and longtime Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vader have released an official video of the Artemis mission. It’s set to music by Vader’s song “Invincible” and you can see it below.
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Space Launch System takes us to March 2030?
NASA has now agreed to build the most powerful space rocket the world has ever seen. This will be the first time since they built their space shuttles that NASA has agreed to build a new prototype spacecraft for humans. It’s called the Space Launch System (SLS) and when fully developed, the missile will have a lifting capacity of 130 tons. However, the first version of the SLS to be launched in February next year will have a lifting capacity of up to 70 tons. Sometime before 2018, it will hopefully be ready to launch into space. NASA’s long-term goal for the SLS is that it will be used to send humans to Mars sometime around 2030.
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The SLS will take the United States to the moon again
It’s now been five years since NASA decided to develop the Space Launch System (SLS), and this weekend NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine showed it to the public for the first time. The SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever made by man, and the idea is that it will take astronauts to the Moon as early as 2024. Later, it is believed that the SLS will be used to send spacecraft and astronauts to Mars. Regarding the displayed SLS, NASA also conducted a test of the rocket’s fuel tank, which was said to be successful. SLS is delayed with some delays. Initially, the idea was that the SLS would launch into space as early as 2018, but in 2017 that was delayed until this year, which also didn’t happen. The latest SLS offering is that it will blast off into space for the first time in 2021 and then be used when the United States returns to the moon in 2024. This is NASA’s Artemis program that will land a man and the first woman ever on the moon’s surface. This time, the United States is also aiming to create a permanent lunar base, something that could in the future be considered the first city on the moon if people choose to settle there.
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NASA’s next lunar spacecraft has begun preparing for departure
It’s starting to get tight for the launch of NASA’s first Artemis mission to the Moon. In this video, you can check out what it looked like when NASA first installed the 33.5-ton Orion Artemis 1 capsule on the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will launch the crew from Earth. Artemis 1 is 98 meters high, roughly the height of the Saturn rockets used to send NASA’s Apollo spacecraft to the Moon in the 1970s. Artemis 1 will also carry 10 smaller satellites that are shot down during flight. Early next year, the unmanned Artemis 1 spacecraft is expected to leave Earth. The manned Artemis 2 spacecraft is scheduled to head to the Moon in 2023 but will not land there. Sometime in 2024, NASA hopes to send Artemis 3 to the Moon where it is supposed to land a female astronaut, one of whom will be the first female astronaut on the Moon.
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