Unlike the streamlined Saturn V, the new rocket has a pair of strap-on boosters refashioned from NASA’s space shuttles. It's called the Space Launch System rocket, SLS for short, but a less clunky name is under discussion, according to Nelson. But it’s mightier, packing 8.8 million pounds (4 million kilograms) of thrust. The new rocket is shorter and slimmer than the Saturn V rockets that hurled 24 Apollo astronauts to the moon a half-century ago. Here’s a rundown of the first flight of the Artemis program, named after Apollo’s mythological twin sister. Add everything up since the program’s inception a decade ago until a 2025 lunar landing, and there’s even more sticker shock: $93 billion. The price tag for this single mission: more than $4 billion. "Will the United States have the will to push forward in the face of a major malfunction?"
"It is supposed to be the first step in a sustained program of human exploration of the moon, Mars, and beyond," said John Logsdon.
Spiraling costs and long gaps between missions will make for a tough comeback if things go south, he noted.
Rocket power trial#
The retired founder of George Washington University’s space policy institute said a lot is riding on this trial run. We’re going make it do things that we would never do with a crew on it in order to try to make it as safe as possible,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The six-week test flight is risky and could be cut short if something fails, NASA officials warn.
Liftoff is set for Monday morning from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. If all goes well, astronauts could strap in as soon as 2024 for a lap around the moon, with NASA aiming to land two people on the lunar surface by the end of 2025. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket will attempt to send an empty crew capsule into a far-flung lunar orbit, 50 years after NASA's famed Apollo moonshots. También influyó para que los personajes usen palabras como Brother, shobies (turista), y otros términos que usan los surfistas.CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Years late and billions over budget, NASA’s new moon rocket makes its debut next week in a high-stakes test flight before astronauts get on top. De hecho, debido al énfasis en los deportes extremos que tiene este programa, los productores contrataron a un miembro del equipo de Surfer Magazine como consejero técnico y de lenguaje para asegurarse de que cosas como las olas del mar y el Medio Casco de la pista de patinaje fueran representados con un aceptable nivel de realismo y credibilidad. El programa gira alrededor de las aventuras cotidianas de un grupo de niños aficionados a los deportes extremos que viven en el sur de California, en la ciudad ficticia de Costa del Océano ("Ocean Shores"), en donde disfrutan practicando surfeo, patinaje, patineta, ciclismo, hockey callejero, y otros pasatiempos activos. Producido por el estudio de animación Klasky Csupo (quienes también crearon la popular serie Aventuras en Pañales). Rocket Power es una serie de televisión animada de Estados Unidos, que hizo su aparición en el canal de televisión Nickelodeon en agosto de 1999.
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