NASA Artemis V Moon Rocket Engine Test #10: Preparing for Crewed Missions

NASA Artemis V Moon Rocket Engine Test #10: Preparing for Crewed Missions

An Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 rocket engine (RS-25 Engine 10001) was tested on the Fred Haise Test Stand (formerly A-1 Test Stand) at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, on June 8, 2023, at 18:16 UTC (13:16 CDT). This was the tenth hot fire test in a planned 12-test series of the newly redesigned RS-25 engines that will be used beginning with Artemis V. The test had a planned duration of 500 seconds, the same amount of time the engines must fire during an actual flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS).

Through Artemis, NASA is returning humans, including the first woman and the first person of color, to the Moon to explore the lunar surface and prepare for flights to Mars. SLS is the only rocket capable of sending the agency’s Orion spacecraft, astronauts, and supplies to the Moon in a single mission.

For information about the Space Launch System, visit: 

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

Credit: NASA's Stennis Space Center

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 9 minutes

Release Date: June 8, 2023

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