Native rockets taking NASA to the moon

REDMOND, Wash. — NASA’s Artemis marketing campaign is a daring sequence of missions to take people again to the moon… and people astronauts will get there thanks to assist from rocket engines made proper right here in Washington!

“If we didn’t make these engines, then there wouldn’t be any sort of orbital maneuvering system, there wouldn’t be a way for the crew module to come back to Earth safely. It’s really important to us that we make engines that we know are going to work well and work right,” stated Kathryn Luczek, L3Harris Orion Deputy Program Manager.

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We are advised every of the primary three Artemis missions makes use of 32 rocket engines produced on the L3Harris facility in Redmond.

NASA representatives paid a go to this week.

“There is so much to do on the moon. We’re going there for science. There are scientific discoveries to be made. The Apollo missions only went to the equatorial regions. Imagine if you visited earth, but only went to the equator. There is so much more to see on the moon,” stated NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg.

The subsequent mission, deliberate for no later than April of subsequent yr, will take people across the moon for the primary time since 1972.

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“There’s a lot of harsh realities associated with being in space that you have to deal with, radiation being one of them, and you are multiple days away from Earth. Unlike in low Earth orbit, you have to bring systems in terms of redundancy and consumables with you,” stated Howard Hu, Orion Program Manager.

The third mission will land astronauts on the lunar floor, bringing NASA nearer to its long-term objectives.

“There is a lot of scientific discovery to do. We want to set up moon bases, do all the things,” stated Hoburg.