190K views · 790 reactions | Nel suo "banco di prova" nello Utah, ieri Northrop Grumman Corporation Innovation Systems ha effettuato un test su un booster di SLS. L'accensione è servita per testare la qualità costruttiva di alcuni materiali e validarne dei nuovi per l'utilizzo futuro. Fonte: NASA TV | AstronautiCAST | Facebook

As Kennedy Space Center takes inventory of the first SLS SRB's, Artemis 1 is quickly approaching. Check out the intense static fire from 2017 of the now upgraded boosters from the Shuttle Era: | The Space Tap

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration just rolled out the Space Launch System (SLS), an 11-million-pound rocket built to return humans to the moon. 🚀🌕 This powerful launch vehicle will carry the Artemis II mission, sending four astronauts around the Moon and beyond Earth orbit for the first time since Apollo 17. It took 12 hours to move the rocket just four miles to the launch pad. With over 8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, the SLS is NASA’s most powerful rocket to date.