NASA Manufacturing SLS Core Stages for Artemis II and Artemis III

This video highlights the latest progress in manufacturing the second and third core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the world’s most powerful rocket, for the crewed missions of the agency’s Artemis program. Technicians are simultaneously manufacturing SLS core stages at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. 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 will produce 8.8 million pounds of thrust to send NASA’s Orion spacecraft, astronauts, and supplies beyond Earth’s orbit to the Moon. The core stage consists of five major structures.