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A Nasa concluded on Thursday (18) an eight-minute test of the engines of a rocket built by Boeing for the Artemis missions, which aim to take astronauts back to the Moon by 2024, more than half a century after the last lunar walk.
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NASA conducted a fire and heat test of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core to simulate a launch and fire engines while the vehicle was anchored to a tower at the US State Stennis Space Center. from Mississippi.
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The four RS-25 engines roared and ignited for the duration of the test and filled the surroundings and the sky with clouds of white smoke. After the engines were turned off, NASA employees could be heard applauding on the live video broadcast.
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Image taken from a video released by NASA shows a fire and heat test portion of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Thursday (18) – Photo: NASA via AP
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An earlier test in January ended after about a minute – much less than the four minutes it took for engineers to collect enough data.
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NASA aims to take American astronauts to the moon again by 2024, but the SLS program is three years behind schedule and the budget is nearly $ 3 billion. The last astronaut to walk on the Moon was Eugene Cernan, in December 1972.
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The Space Launch System should now go to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for integration with Lockheed Martin Corp.’s Orion spacecraft.
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