The Artemis program is a US government-funded crewed spaceflight program that has the goal of landing "the first woman and the next man" on the Moon, specifically at the lunar south pole region by 2024.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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2020-09-02T18:40:00+0000
Flight Support Booster-1 (FSB-1) is a full-scale solid rocket booster ground test that supports flights of NASA's Space Launch System. The objective is to confirm motor performance and manufacturing quality of the booster.
2020-12-20T12:00:00+0000
Engineers demonstrated loading, controlling and draining more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million liters) of cryogenic propellants into the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen tanks and then returning the stage to a safe condition. Toward the end of the simulated terminal countdown, the test automatically stopped due to a valve closure being off by a fraction of a second. The team has corrected the timing, and additional analysis clears the way for hot fire.
2021-01-16T22:26:00+0000
The core stage of the Space Launch System will undergo the final 'Green Run' test, where the four RS-25 engines will be fired for 8 minutes, demonstrating performance similar to an actual launch.
2021-01-17T01:00:00+0000
NASA will host a press conference on the results of the SLS Green Run Hot Fire. The test was aborted approximately 1 minute into an 8 minute hot fire.
2021-03-18T20:37:00+0000
NASA successfully conducted a second Green Run hot fire with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s core stage that will launch the Artemis I mission to the Moon. The four RS-25 engines were fired for 8 minutes, demonstrating performance similar to an actual launch.