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Hi I'm Rob Stough the SLS Utilization
Manager for the Space Launch

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System at NASA's Marshall
Space Flight Center and

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this is Rocket Science in
Sixty Seconds

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This SLS will launch Orion
both uncrewed and crewed

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to the Moon and also launch
the Europa Clipper spacecraft

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directly to Jupiter.

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For EM-1 we plan on testing
the SLS, ground systems

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and the Orion spacecraft together
for the first time.

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In order to leave the Earth's
surface the SLS will fire

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two rocket boosters and four
RS-25's producing 8.8 million

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pounds of thrust.

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After the core stage drops off
the upper stage, which is

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full of propellant. The upper stage
will make a minor adjustment

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to its orbit and then perform
trans-lunar injection.