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To the Moon and Beyond: Why Our SLS Rocket Is Designed for Deep Space
It will take incredible power to send the first woman and the next man to the Moon’s South Pole by 2024. That’s where America’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket comes in to play.
Providing more payload mass, volume capability and energy to speed missions through deep space than any other rocket, our SLS rocket, along with our lunar Gateway and Orion spacecraft, creates the backbone for our deep space exploration and Artemis lunar mission goals.
Here’s why our SLS rocket is a deep space rocket like no other:
It’s a heavy lifter
The Artemis missions will send humans 280,000 miles away from Earth. That’s 1,000 times farther into space than the International Space Station. To accomplish that mega feat, you need a rocket that’s designed to lift — and lift heavy. With help from a dynamic core stage — the largest stage we have ever built — the 5.75-million-pound SLS rocket can propel itself off the Earth. This includes the 57,000 pounds of cargo that will go to the Moon. To accomplish this, SLS will produce 15% more thrust at launch and during ascent than the Saturn V did for the Apollo Program.
We have the power
Where do our rocket’s lift and thrust capabilities come from? If you take a peek under our powerful rocket’s hood, so to speak, you’ll find a core stage with four RS-25 engines that produce more than 2 million pounds of thrust alongside two solid rocket boosters that each provide another 3.6 million pounds of thrust power. It’s a bold design. Together, they provide an incredible 8.8 million pounds of thrust to power the Artemis missions off the Earth. The engines and boosters are modified heritage hardware from the Space Shuttle Program, ensuring high performance and reliability to drive our deep space missions.
A rocket with style
While our rocket’s core stage design will remain basically the same for each of the Artemis missions, the SLS rocket’s upper stage evolves to open new possibilities for payloads and even robotic scientific missions to worlds farther away than the Moon like Mars, Saturn and Jupiter. For the first three Artemis missions, our SLS rocket uses an interim cryogenic propulsion stage with one RL10 engine to send Orion to the lunar south pole. For Artemis missions following the initial 2024 Moon landing, our SLS rocket will have an exploration upper stage with bigger fuel tanks and four RL10 engines so that Orion, up to four astronauts and larger cargoes can be sent to the Moon, too. Additional core stages and upper stages will support either crewed Artemis missions, science missions or cargo missions for a sustained presence in deep space.
It’s just the beginning
Crews at our Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans are in the final phases of assembling the core stage for Artemis I— and are already working on assembly for Artemis II.
Through the Artemis program, we aim not just to return humans to the Moon, but to create a sustainable presence there as well. While there, astronauts will learn to use the Moon’s natural resources and harness our newfound knowledge to prepare for the horizon goal: humans on Mars.
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Right Now 10:56 pm EDT 50 years ago‼️ #moon landing‼️ C: @crazyvisitors 😜 #moonlanding #apollo11 #apollo #apollo50 #America #Congrats #crazyvisitors😜 #nasa #space #moon2024 #astronaut https://www.instagram.com/p/B0KbKhUgwHC/?igshid=1inso5r5dqbsx
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On Artemis: “I think women can do anything men can do in space, perhaps they can do it better.” — @astromichaelcollins #Apollo50th #MikeCollins #Moon2024 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz-tscWFuNU/?igshid=1xyvclp3omgy2
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A drone show is seen during the Mars celebration Friday, May 31, 2019, in Mars, Pennsylvania. NASA is in the small town to celebrate Mars exploration and share the agency’s excitement about landing astronauts on the Moon in five years. The celebration includes a weekend of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) activities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) . . . . . @nasa #billingalls #mars #moon #drone #pennsylvania #butlercounty #Moon2024 #STEAM (at Mars, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByJ6I0XlZgV/?igshid=qe2ri4pxxz7a
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“I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.” - Wernher Von Braun #sustainable #artemis #exploration #moon2024 (na mieste Nasa Florida Keneddy Space Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdd9hI5rKwe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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With both public and private sector companies now trying to discover what happens to materials in space, Tinius Olsen have the expertise to help gain a significant insight.
#space#aerospace#final frontier#spacex#nasa#materials#qualitycontrol#machining#rawmaterials#astm#performancetesting#expertise#discover#companies#moon2024#materials science#materialstesting
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The Full Moon, as seen from the International Space Station 🇺🇸🇷🇺#MoonlightForTwo #FlyMeToTheMoon #ISS #NASA 📸Breathtakingly beautiful photo capture by @astro_christina Repost @nasa @get_reposter Exploration is in our DNA & our closest celestial friend, the Moon, is a treasure trove of science! As we look forward to sending the first woman and next man to the lunar surface with five years, we're sharing these images of our favorite neighbor as seen by one of our @NASAAstronauts aboard the International Space Station (@ISS). Credit: NASA/@astro_christina #MoonMonday #Moon2024 #FullMoon #NASA #space https://www.instagram.com/p/ByWrm62Ai5v/?igshid=11iq39h3ajg9h
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Recording tonight! The topics might be.... #AlabamaAbortionBan #Arthur #NXIVM #Nike #Trump #Moon2024 #WomensRights https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxwu2-2Ak8P/?igshid=1ub3pfekprwvt
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NASA plans to send astronauts back to the moon to stay. What are your thoughts? Leave a comment below. #moon2024 #astronomy #astronaut #artemis #space #sls #spacelaunchsystem #moonlander #moonlanding https://www.instagram.com/p/BxqV16hhM4O/?igshid=ntyagkmrcca7
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Earth’s Ocean and Beyond
Image Credit: NOAA
Earth’s ocean has been the backdrop for ancient epics, tales of fictional fish and numerous scientific discoveries. It was, and will always be, a significant piece of the Earth's story. Most of the ocean is unexplored– about 95% of this underwater realm is unseen by human eyes (NOAA). There is only one global Ocean. In fact, the ocean represents over 70% of the Earth's surface and contains 96.5% of the Earth’s water.
We and the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research work together alongside organizations like the Schmidt Ocean Institute and Ocean Exploration Trust to better understand our oceans and its processes. While space may be the final frontier, understanding our own planet helps scientists as they explore space and study how our universe came to be.
On #WorldOceansDay let’s explore how Earth’s ocean informs our research throughout the solar system.
Earth and Exoplanets
“In interpreting what we see elsewhere in the solar system and universe, we always compare with phenomena that we already know of on Earth...We work from the familiar toward the unknown.” - Norman Kuring, NASA Goddard
We know of only one living planet: our own. As we move to the next stage in the search for alien life, the effort will require the expertise of scientists of all disciplines. However, the knowledge and tools NASA has developed to study life on Earth will also be one of the greatest assets to the quest.
The photo above shows what Earth would look like at a resolution of 3 pixels, the same that exoplanet-discovering missions would see. What should we look for, in the search of other planets like our own? What are the unmistakable signs of life, even if it comes in a form we don't fully understand? Liquid water; every cell we know of -- even bacteria around deep-sea vents that exist without sunlight -- requires water.
Phytoplankton (Algae) Bloom vs. Atmosphere of Jupiter
Jupiter’s storms are mesmerizing in their beauty, captured in many gorgeous photos throughout the decades from missions like Voyager 1 and Juno. The ethereal swirls of Jupiter are the result of fluids in motion on a rotating body, which might come as a surprise, since its atmosphere is made of gas!
The eddies in Jupiter’s clouds appear very similar to those found in Earth’s ocean, like in the phytoplankton (or algae) bloom in the Baltic Sea, pictured above. The bloom was swept up in a vortex, just a part of how the ocean moves heat, carbon, and nutrients around the planet. Blooms like this, however, are not all beauty - they create “dead zones” in the areas where they grow, blooming and decaying at such a high rate that they consume all the oxygen in the water around them.
Arctic Sea Ice and Europa Ice Crust
While the Arctic (North Pole) and the Antarctic (South Pole) are “polar opposites,” there is one huge difference between the North and South Poles– land mass. The Arctic is ocean surrounded by land, while the Antarctic is land surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean amid waters that are almost permanently covered with constantly shifting sea ice.
By studying this sea ice, scientists can research its impact on Earth system and even formation processes on other bodies like Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter. For example, it is possible that the reddish surface features on Europa’s ice may have communicated with a global subsurface ocean layer during or after their formation.
Aquanauts and Astronauts
As new missions are being developed, scientists are using Earth as a testbed. Just as prototypes for our Mars rovers made their trial runs on Earth's deserts, researchers are testing both hypotheses and technology on our oceans and extreme environments.
NEEMO, our Extreme Environment Mission Operations project, is an analog mission that sends groups of astronauts, engineers and scientists to live in Aquarius, the world's only undersea research station located off the Florida Keys, 62 feet (19 meters) below the surface. Much like space, the undersea world is a hostile, alien place for humans to live. NEEMO crew members, known as aquanauts, experience some of the same challenges there that they would on a distant asteroid, planet or moon.
Deep-sea Robotic Exploration and Space Robotic Exploration
Video credit: Deep Sea Robotics/Schmidt Ocean Institute and Mars Curiosity rover/NASA
From mapping the seafloor through bathymetry to collecting samples on the surface of Mars, researchers are utilizing new technologies more than ever to explore. Satellite and robotic technology allow us to explore where humans may not be able to– yet. They teach us valuable lessons about the extreme and changing environments, science, as well as provide a platform to test new technologies.
Jezero Crater and Dvina River Delta, Arkhangelsk, Russia/Mars Delta
River deltas, the point where a river meets the ocean, are sites of rich sediment and incredible biodiversity. The nutrients that rivers carry to the coastlines make a fertile place for fish and shellfish to lay their eggs.
The Jezero crater on Mars (pictured in false-color on the right) has been selected as the Mars2020 landing site, and has a structure that looks much like a river delta here on Earth! Pictures from our Mars Global Surveyor orbiter show eroded ancient deposits of transported sediment long since hardened into interweaving, curved ridges of layered rock. This is one of many hints that Mars was once covered in an ancient ocean that had more water than the Arctic Ocean. Studying these deltas on Earth helps us spot them on other planets, and learning about the ocean that was once on Mars informs how our own formed.
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#Earth#NASA#Ocean#Europa#Enceladus#Mars#Moon2024#Artemis#WorldOceansDay#WorldOceansMonth#NOAA#science#space
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We’re Going Back to the #MOON ‼️ #Moon2024 🚀 😜 Follow @crazyvisitors 😜 & SKYROCKET your #websitetraffic ‼️⚡️⚡️ . • 💥 • #NASA #nasagoddard #nasamoon #lifecoach #lifetips #success #hustle #mindsetiseverything #motivation #motivationalquotes #makemoneyonline #SEO #ecommerce #crazyvisitors😜 #tuesdaymotivation #tuesdaythoughts #tuesdayquotes #news #breakingnews #viral #trending #wow #apollo11 https://www.instagram.com/p/BxuYnGznIWk/?igshid=l7exgqkymq81
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A EXPLORAÇÃO ESTÁ NO NOSSO DNA e o nosso amigo celestial mais próximo, a lua, é um baú do tesouro da ciência! Como estamos à espera da missão #moon2024, estamos a partilhar estes destaques do nosso vizinho favorito retirado do International Space Station e da terra Exploration is in our DNA and our closest celestial friend, the Moon, is a treasure chest of science! As we look forward to #Moon2024 mission, we're sharing these highlights of our favorite neighbor taken from the International Space Station and Earth https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC4jrTqQX-ObxHyfLBWg41PA #astronomia #planetas #universo #espaço #astronauta #sistemasolar #astronauta #astronomy #planet #planets #universe #space #astronaut #solarsystem #spacex #cientistas #CarlSagan #Interestellar #hubble #earth #cosmos #saturno #Earth #Terra #quasar #galaxia #galaxy #loveastronomy (em NASA - Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxf6CaeBOjv/?igshid=lpdw4opt5z4q
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I’m going to the moon, no matter with who 🚀🧑🏽🚀 I’d like to introduce to you our lunar lander, Blue Moon 🌙 Blue Moon is a flexible lander delivering a wide variety of payloads to the lunar surface. It derives from the vertical landing technology pioneered by the New Shepard. #lovemyjob . . . #futureastronaut #beanastronaut #blueorigin #nasa #astronaut #astrojoane #dream #goals #goal #space #engineering #engineer #yourfemaleengineer #femaleengineer #womenwhostem #empoweringwomen #internationalwomensday #lunarlander #womenwhoengineer #moon2024 #teamblue #clubforthefuture @blueorigin @clubforfuture @expanseonprime @womenwhoengineer @womenwhocode @womenintech @women.doing.science @engineeringgals (at Blue Origin) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ko89uBAbY/?igshid=pxgkxqea0f8e
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