Northrop Grumman Manager Discuss Arrival of SLS Rocket Motors to KSC_Charles Precourt

This video includes soundbites from Charles Precourt, Vice President, Propulsion Systems, Northrop Grumman in Promontory, Utah. The booster segments are produced by Northrop Grumman, the booster prime contractor for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and are shipped from Utah by train to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 10 rocket motors arrived at Kennedy on June 15 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.. 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 Moon. Offering more payload mass, volume capability and energ