NASA is accelerating plans for a human return to the Moon. NASA was directed by the White House in 2019 to land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. NASA’s backbone for future deep space exploration is the Space Launch System (SLS), as well as the Orion crew spacecraft, Gateway outpost, and Human Landing System as part of the Artemis program. While the SLS upper stage, the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS), based on an existing commercial stage was shipped to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in 2017, major completed components of SLS will soon begin their eastward journey that will see them at KSC in 2020 to be integrated for their history-making launch back to the Moon. Core Stage prime contractor Boeing completed the Artemis I core stage in 2019 at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) and shipped it to NASA Stennis Space Center (SSC) for stage green run testing in 2020 and then to KSC. Northrop Grumman, prime contractor for the 5-segment solid rocket boosters, is scheduled to begin overland shipment of the Artemis I motor segments from Utah to KSC in 2020 to await integration. This paper will discuss SLS progress to date and planned 2020 milestones.


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    Titel :

    NASA's Space Launch System Begins Moving To The Launch Site


    Beteiligte:
    Bruce R Askins (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    JANNAF 2020 ; 2020 ; Pittsburgh, PA, US


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch






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