A NASA released this Friday (16) a video showing the SLS rocket (Space Launch System, in free translation) that will be responsible for sending astronauts to the Moon. The Artemis III mission will take members of the force spacecraft to Earth's satellite in 2025.
According to the United States space agency, the main structures that will form the SLS are already ready for more equipment to be added. Technicians finished welding the structure of the 51-foot liquid oxygen tank in New Orleans on January 8.
The other tank – liquid hydrogen – is already fully welded.
The process of assembling the rocket “hardware” responsible for taking humans back to the Moon is complex and involves several steps of welding, washing and adding other equipment. Internal cleaning, for example, is similar to a shower so that the propulsion systems do not become contaminated.
The rocket's two gigantic propellant tanks together store more than 733,000 gallons of supercooled propellant. They power the four rocket engines and must remain cold so that the liquid is maintained – and so the rocket can be launched.
With the Artemis III mission, NASA will send a new team of astronauts to the Moon . This time, this team will feature the first woman and the first black person to set foot on the satellite.
Check out NASA's video of the tanks that will be used in the Artemis III mission on the Moon:
Source: CNN Brasil
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