Updates on NASA’s Successful Hot Fire Test for the Artemis Moon Rocket
Now that the Green Run hot fire test is complete, Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk, Deputy Associate Administrator for Human Exploration Tom Whitmeyer, Space Launch System (SLS) Manager John Honeycutt, and SLS Stages Manager Julie Bassler will discuss how the SLS core stage performed and what’s next for the Artemis I mission to the Moon. Today’s hot fire test took place at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on the historic B-2 Test Stand and ignited the core stage for a full eight minutes, providing invaluable data for our engineers.