Engineers will power up all the core stage systems, load more than 700,000 gallons of supercold propellant into the tanks, and fire the rocket’s four RS-25 engines at the same time to simulate the stage’s operation during the launch of our first Artemis mission to the Moon.
(, Thu 18 Mar 2021, 19:57, Reply)
Given it’s Boeing in charge of integration and the mess they made of Starliner I have my doubts.
Reckon they’ll make three minutes.
(, Thu 18 Mar 2021, 20:35, Reply)
Potentially no more than that, according to some. I think 3 SLS launches is probably the least the US government could get away with without getting sued.
I like SLS. It's Space Shuttle without all the space shuttle crap getting in the way.
(, Thu 18 Mar 2021, 22:05, Reply)
There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!
(, Thu 18 Mar 2021, 21:51, Reply)
