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✨ Humanity's lunar dreams inch closer! 🚀 NASA's colossal SLS rocket—key to next year's Artemis II moon mission—cleared a major milestone! 🌕 #Artemis #SpaceLaunchSystem #MoonMission

Source: https://phys.org/news/2025-03-nasa-biggest-rocket-pieces-artemis.html

NASA puts biggest rocket pieces together for Artemis II moon mission

The slow race of getting NASA's Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year's Artemis II moon mission jumped a big hurdle over the weekend.

phys.org

March 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM

Hourly Cosmos

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Blood Moon Total Eclipse at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/2nYgBzz

$This composite made from 10 images shows the progression of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse above the Vehicle Assembly Building, Nov. 8, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Visible trailing the Moon in this composite is Mars. For North America, the partial eclipse began at 4:09 a.m. EST, with totality beginning at 5:16 a.m. One feature of a total lunar eclipse is the Moon’s red hue during totality. The red color occurs because of the refraction, filtering, and scattering of light by Earth’s atmosphere. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky #NASA #NASAMarshall #ArtemisI #sls #spacelaunchsystem #nasasls #exploration #rocket #artemis #KSC #KennedySpaceCenter Read more More about Artemis More about the Space Launch System NASA Media Usage Guidelines$

February 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM

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The Space Launch System rocket is seen rolling toward its launch pad, LC-39B, in Florida 3/17/2022. -- Trevor Mahlmann

#Photography #Photographs #Pictures #Photos #Documentary #DocumentaryPhotography #SpaceLaunchSystem #Florida #Space

February 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM

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Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts

arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

#News #USNews #Politics #USPolitics #Space #Science #Boeing #NASA #SLS #SpaceLaunchSystem

Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts

The White House has not made a final decision yet on the large rocket.

arstechnica.com

February 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM

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Boeing rechnet damit, dass die NASA ihre Verträge für die Trägerrakete SLS platzen lässt. Mitarbeitern droht die Kündigung. #sfcd #sls #mond #SpaceLaunchSystem #nasa #boeing

Mondrakete Boeing SLS könnte vor dem Aus stehen

Boeing rechnet damit, dass die NASA ihre Verträge für die Trägerrakete SLS platzen lässt. Mitarbeitern droht die Kündigung.

https://futurezone.at/science/rakete-boeing-space-launch-system-sls-nasa-ende-vertrag-artemis-budgetkuerzung/403008435?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Perplexity%20Assistant%3A%20Das%20kann%20der%20neue%20KI-Assistent%20für%20Android&utm_campaign=futurezone%20Newsletter%20%28Copy%29%20%28Copy%29%20%28Copy%29%20%28Copy%29

February 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM

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An aerial view shows the teams moving the Spider and Transportation Integration Fixture to the Artemis II core stage for mating. This operation is key to ensuring successful mission assembly.
#NASA #MoonMission #Artemis #SpaceLaunchSystem

January 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM

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A not-so-spooky Spider 🕷️🕸️ has been mated to the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage for Artemis II at @NASAKennedy. The Spider is connected at the top of the core stage, helping with lifting operations using the Vehicle Assembly Building crane.
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January 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM

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Progress continues on Artemis II! The latest SLS rocket booster segment has been stacked in the VAB at @NASAKennedy. The completed rocket will soon undergo testing before launching astronauts to the Moon next year. #NASA #SpaceLaunchSystem #MoonMission

January 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM

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Orion Goes the (Max) Distance - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/2o3egwV

NASA's uncrewed Orion spacecraft reached the farthest distance from Earth it will travel during the Artemis I mission — 268,563 miles from our home planet — just after 3 p.m. CST. The spacecraft also captured imagery of Earth and the Moon together throughout the day, including of the Moon appearing to eclipse Earth.

Reaching the halfway point of the mission on Flight Day 13 of a 25.5 day mission, the spacecraft remains in healthy condition as it continues its journey in distant retrograde orbit, an approximately six-day leg of its larger mission thousands of miles beyond the Moon.

Image credit: NASA

#NASA #NASAMarshall #ArtemisI #Orion #sls #spacelaunchsystem #nasasls #exploration #rocket #artemis #ArtemisI

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December 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM

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Saw this poor rocket at the Australian Space Discovery Centre...

A hybrid of Falcon 9 Upper Stage and SLS Core Stage + SRB... Amazing xD

Plus, that means the above payload fairing must be massive :>

#space #rocket #Falcon9 #SpaceLaunchSystem #australia

An orange first stage of a rocket with white solid rocket boosters along 2/3 of the first stage. With a black interstage above it.
A white second stage of a rocket with a payload fairing that widens above the 2nd stage.

November 24, 2024 at 12:46 AM

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