0130_MSFC_SLS_XP02_Bruce_Tiller_SLS Booster Arrival_SB_06122020

In this video, Bruce Tiller, Boosters Office manager for NASA’s Space Launch System Program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, discusses the arrival of the booster segments at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 10 rocket motors arrived at Kennedy on June 2020 and will be part of the first SLS rocket to help launch the first Artemis mission to the Moon. Delivery of the Artemis I booster segments marks an important milestone for the SLS Program and the launch of Artemis I, the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to the Moon through NASA’s Artemis Program. The booster segments are produced by Northrop Grumman, the booster prime contractor, in Promontory, Utah, then shipped by train to Kennedy. Now that the SLS rocket’s booster segments are at Kennedy, NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems team will prepare them for several assembly and integration activities. Together with four RS-25 engines, the rocket’s massive 212-foot-tall core stage — the largest stage NASA has ever built — and its twin solid rocket boosters produces 8.8 million pounds of thrust to send NASA’s Orion spacecraft, astronauts and supplies beyond Earth’s orbit to the Moo