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The frozen water locked up in the rock. >> fantastic. >> and id like to add something else to the whole idea of what happens. so, i think theres a timeline that actually connects apollo much more to artemis than, perhaps, has been told. so, the engine youre speaking of that was on the space shuttle, it was actually a modified saturn v engine. so, there is this continuity. we added the solid rocket boosters, which is part of the shuttle program. and i always feel that its important for us to unde...

Right here and on the artemis rocket the orion capsule sits up top. this is the space shuttle. these two white solid rocket boosters, those all use parts from the space shuttle on the artemis rocket. where theyre running into trouble are these engines, these are the rs-25 engines, there are four of them that have been moved off the shuttle and on to the bottom of the core stage of the sls artemis rocket. one of those rockets, engine number 3, is running into some issues. the engineers and there ...

NASA’s SLS rocket and the Artemis I mission are scheduled to launch on Monday.

Most complex system that has been put into space yet. >> first time i saw "columbia" and got close to it, my whole thought was oh, my god, its big. and this is going to go 17,500 miles per hour? >> more than half a million people crowded the beaches around cape kennedy this morning to witness first-hand the first space shuttle launch. >> t minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4. we have gone for main engine start. >> we added a giant fuel tank to it and two solid rocket boosters that are the largest pop bot...

Would commute to space carrying scientists and satellites. >> the most important thing was the digital revolution of faster, more powerful computers with complex software. >> computers are absolutely necessary to fly a spacecraft like the shuttle. its the most sophisticated, most complex system that has been put into space yet. >> first time i saw "columbia" and got close to it, my whole thought was, oh my god, its big. and this is going to go 17,500 miles per hour? >> more than half a million p...

Its like balancing a broomstick with your finger, with a lot more physics involved. whats so important about this is when you think about all the things we threw away on our way to space, the huge chunks of the apollo, the space shuttle aimed to be reusable, but it was not reusable in a practical way t. solid rocket boosters would be fished out of the water. the orbiter itself had those very fragile tiles on the surface which required a ton of work. owl of that added to the expense. imagine if e...

So i think elon musk with spacex pioneered that with the orbital rockets. theyre doing it here with blue origin. virgin galactics vehicle is reusable. that aspect of space travel is a huge change compared to the throw away rockets of the 60s and 70s. >> and for future space travel and exploration, miles, reusable rockets are essential. >> absolutely, anderson. you know, we tried to do this with the space shuttle, but we came up way short on the idea of reusability. they threw away the external f...

Know, i think thats what everybody holds their breath on. theyve done it successfully many times on test runs. but that is what actually -- they had a problem with that in 2014 and a test pilot was killed. theyve done redesigns. theyve done major safety stand downs to address all of that. but i think if there is any concern anybody has as it relates to this vehicle, as it is still a test vehicle, its that particular feature. >> leland melvin, you have done this before of the group of people who ...

Away at the same time that space ship 2 ignites its rockets. the rocket engine is a hybrid engine. its burning a oxidizer down the center, down the center of a solid fuel, rubber. and it is a rough ride. that engine is nice, smooth rocket engine like leland experienced on the solid rocket boosters. its going to be a rough ride. its loud. its got a lot of vibration and its going to be firing for a couple minutes. at the same time that the pilots are pointing the nose of space ship 2 literally str...

NASAs George C. Marshall Space Flight Center has more than six decades of history designing, building and testing a storied series of rockets, rocket engines and instruments to fly in space. The center’s accomplishments include the Redstone rocket used to launch Project Mercury, the Saturn rockets for the Apollo program, the Skylab space station, and the Hubble Space Telescope. Marshall is located on the grounds of the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, a city in northern Alabama about...