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Graham Smith
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
11/16/2022
01:47 am

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Artemis Lifting off bound for the moon & beyond before returning to earth

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None, Equipment Nikon D850, Nikon 600mm F/4 1/1000, F/5.6, ISO 320 Distance 3.1miles

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Worlds most powerful rocket powered by 4 RS-25 liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen engines built by Aerojet Rocketdyne. The RS-25 powered the space shuttle & is one of the most tested large rocket engines in history. Each engine produces 460,000 pounds of thrust. Hot gases exit the RS-25 engines nozzles at 13 times faster than the speed of sound.

Worlds largest solid boosters (Twin 5 Segment) 177 Feet in length, 12 feet in diameter
Solid Propellant: PBAN (Polybutadiene Acrylonitrile) 3.6 million pounds of thrust each.
Each booster burns approximately 6 tons of propellant per second, & generate more thrust than 144 commercial jet engines

Total of 8,800,000 pounds of thrust.
Core Stage 212 feet in length, 27.6 feet in diameter, Empty Weight 188,000 pounds
2 million liters (317,000 pounds Liquid Hydrogen), 741,941 Liters (1.86 million pounds Liquid Oxygen). Total length with all components added is 322 feet. For Artemis I, Block 1 will launch an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to an orbit 40,000 miles beyond the Moon, or 280,000 miles from Earth. This mission will demonstrate the integrated system performance of SLS, Orion, and Exploration Ground Systems prior to a crewed flight.