Rocket Motor Test for NASA Artemis Moon Missions | Marshall Space Flight Center

Rocket Motor Test for NASA Artemis Moon Missions | Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA engineers successfully completed a subscale solid rocket motor test June 1, 2022, at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama. The subscale motor produced 89,000 pounds of thrust during the hot fire test. This was the second test supporting development efforts for a new motor design for Artemis missions after Artemis VIII. 

NASA's Artemis program is preparing to send the first woman and person of color to the lunar surface.

As part of a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will be an uncrewed flight test in 2022 that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration, and demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond. It will travel 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon over the course of about a three-week mission. NASA's Orion crew spacecraft will stay in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.

Learn more about NASA's Artemis Program: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

Read the Artemis Plan (74-page PDF Free Download): 

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/artemis_plan-20200921.pdf

Video Credit: NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center/Samuel Lott

Duration: 53 seconds

Release Date: June 3, 2022

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