NASA's Artemis II Moon Rocket: Watch Crews Add RS-25 Engines

NASA's Artemis II Moon Rocket: Watch Crews Add RS-25 Engines

NASA's Artemis II Moon rocket reached a significant milestone as teams fully installed all four RS-25 engines to the 212-foot-tall core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. During Artemis II, the four engines, arranged like legs on a chair at the bottom of the mega rocket, will fire for eight minutes at launch, producing more than 2 million pounds of thrust to send the Artemis II crew around the Moon. 

Boeing is the lead contractor for the SLS core stage. Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies company, is the lead contractor for the SLS engines. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the SLS Program and Michoud.

Learn more about the Artemis II Mission: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii 

For more information about NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), visit https://www.nasa.gov/sls

Video Credit: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Nov. 6, 2023

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