This resource reel shows major milestones for NASA’s mega Moon rocket, the SLS (Space Launch System) from fall 2023 through early 2024. Teams across the country are manufacturing, building, and preparing hardware for SLS rockets that will power the first crewed Artemis missions with Artemis II and III and the first flights of SLS in its evolved Block 1B configuration, beginning with Artemis IV and V. Video highlights include: core stage assembly and production for Artemis II and III at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans; members of the Artemis II crew viewing SLS hardware at Michoud and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; painting of the NASA worm logo onto the solid rocket booster motor segments for Artemis II at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida; production and preparation for testing of the test articles for adapters that will premiere on the SLS Block 1B at Marshall; leaders from NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate viewing SLS hardware at Marshall; and, testing RS-25 engines for future SLS flights at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Note: NASA employee badges have been blurred in this video. NASA is working to land the first woman, first person of color, and its first international partner astronaut on the Moon under Artemis. SLS is part of NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration, along with the Orion spacecraft and Gateway in orbit around the Moon and commercial human landing systems, next-generation space, next-generational spacesuits, and rovers on the lunar surface. SLS is the only rocket that can send Orion, astronauts, and supplies to the Moon in a single launch.
