NASA Is Going Back to the Moon 🚀 Here’s How Its Massive Rocket Was Made

NASA is launching to the moon for the first time in 50 years with its most powerful rocket ever. CNET's Claire Reilly goes inside the factory where this super heavy-lift giant is being built, ahead of NASA's most ambitious human journey yet.

0:00 Introduction
1:46 NASA's Crewed Missions
2:30 Artemis Mission Overview
3:25 Inside the Michoud Assembly Facility
4:41 Artemis Design 101
6:26 The Orion Capsule
8:23 The SLS (Space Launch System)
10:28 Transporting the SLS to Kennedy Space Center
11:21 Inside the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building)
11:43 The Challenges for Artemis
12:19 'It's Not One and Done'
13:41 The Future of Artemis

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[clairereilly]

Thanks for watching - this video was great fun to make (genuinely still can't believe how cool it was to see the whole rocket all stacked up!)
My big question for those who weren't around during Apollo (like me): What do you think it'll be like to see boots on the moon?

[fmtdesign]

I thought the rocket was called SLS and ARTEMIS was the program.

[rh]

3:45 where is it not quicker to ride a bike rather than walk 🤔

[MegaJason]

Just goes to show we never had the tech to go to the moon, nasa is now developing the tech, proving we never went to the moon

[friedpork_owl]

It’s exciting to think in a couple years we will be back on the moon & hopefully within a decade have a permanent presence on the surface.

[scottmilster]

My big concern is that we go back to the Moon and maybe to Mars and then come home again and sit around for another 50 years. If it was just NASA and other governments, then i think that's exactly what would happen. With the new space companies working on doing this without government assistance, I'm hoping that we will make space productive and more valuable. It's only through that, that we'll have a sustained presence in space.

[kb]

You can guarantee that SpaceX could do this with 1/10 the cost.

[jamess]

Wish they would give more credit to the thousands of companies that built all of the parts to make that rocket. Years of my life went into it and not even a whiff of a thank you.

[esnstrider]

Being born in the early 1960s, my parents would wake me and my brother up to see the Apollo launches. In the 1990s I met Jim Lovell at a convention in Anaheim. This was before Apollo 13 came out. What a hero. I Will remember that for the rest of my life.

[simian_essence]

Wow. For anyone who follows rockets, this video was — near the end — filled with some incredibly cringeworthy statements. For example: "...building reusable rockets comes at a cost." What follows that statement was epic cringe. Here's another one: "NASA wants to get a return on its investment." Wow. A real jaw-dropper that one. But wait, there's more! : "Eventually the space agency wants to commercialize Artemis..."
I'll end with this inversion: "It's a rocket for a new generation." >>>
reality is this: It's a rocket for a very old generation.

[basileusmcfadden]

Amazing how Americans went to the moon in the 1960s with very poor technology, I thought with the better tech since the opening of the 21st century, they would've scaled the moon more than often

[MTisOnly]

I don't care how awesome they say it is. It is still sixties technology.

[njamatia]

In the face of SpaceX it is too expensive for it's capabilities.

[craigw.scribner]

Along with the upgraded Solid Rocket Boosters, the four RS-25 main booster engines are Space Shuttle heritage items as well. They were reusable during the Shuttle program, although I don't know
if any of the left-over R25 engines have ever flown. It's too bad they will sink to the bottom of the ocean after just one launch, as they were designed from their conception to be re-usable. Because I was born in 1954 and grew up with the space program, it's a bit difficult for me to get too excited about picking up where we left off over half a century ago. But I'm glad nevertheless, and I hope Artemis can be as successful as her brother, Apollo!

[godseeker]

I've only felt like this 2 other times

[Gamerguy-]

Wow!! So we will relive history again! I hope they will have a live session of the moon launch for the first in half a century

[Justin_tech]

This video was fantastic! Bravo, Claire and team!

[ProckerDark]

The USA managed to send people to the moon twelve times in twelve separate missions from 1968 to 1972

Now in 2022 the US is struggling to make one mission to the moon a reality

You know why? Because this time is real not filmed in a studio

[scav]

Next mission is 2 years iffy? It took less time getting there in the 60s considering it was new technology, I would think it would move much faster.

[spuwho]

By the time Artemis sends anyone to Mars, SpaceX will have already been there for 3-5 years at the funding levels and pace NASA moves at.