ROLE IN GETTING THAT ROCKET INTO SPACE. MARCY, LORI, GERRY MADISON SCHMALTZ IS A GRADUATE HERE FROM DOVER AREA HIGH SCHOOL. SHE’S NOW AN ARTEMIS TEST DRIVER. AND LAST WEEK WHEN THAT ROCKET TOOK OFF, SHE WAS THE ONE WHO GAVE IT THE GO AHEAD TO GO TO THE LAUNCH PAD. THIS IS GTC. I’M…
At 11:21 am EDT on Friday, March 20, NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft arrived at Launch Pad 39B after an 11-hour journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the company’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 started its 4-mile trek with the built-in SLS and Orion stacked…
NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft slated to ship 4 astronauts across the Moon started rolling to Launch Pad 39B at 12:20 am EDT on Friday, March 20. Rollout operations on the company’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida had been delayed earlier within the day due to excessive winds within…
NASA’s Artemis II rocket and its four-person crew are all making progress towards a launch pad meet up in April. Engineers are concentrating on 8 pm EDT on Thursday, March 19, to start out rolling the Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B on the company’s Kennedy Space…
Editor’s notice: NASA has up to date an earlier model of this weblog to present further particulars. NASA is taking steps to probably roll again the Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on the company’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after in a single day Feb. 21 observing interrupted…
Teams have started chilling down the liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX) lines for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s core stage. This critical step cools the propellant lines ahead of loading super-cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen into the core stage tanks, which will eventually hold hundreds of thousands of gallons of liquid…
