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I'm Chad Bryant and I'm
the Manufacturing Lead

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for NASA's Space
Launch System core stage.

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This is Rocket Science
in Sixty Seconds.

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♪♪♪♪

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The core stage is
the first stage of the

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SLS rocket and actually the
largest piece of the SLS

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rocket. It's over two hundred
twelve feet in length

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contains two propellant tanks
that house over

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seven hundred thousand
gallons of propellant that

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feed four RS-25 engines
that produce over two million

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pounds of thrust.

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The core stage consists of
five main structures that

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have been built, outfitted
and are ready to be

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stacked and joined
together.

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Next the stage will be
loaded onto the Pegasus

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barge and transported to
Stennis Space Center

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Bay Saint Louis Mississippi.
There we will perform

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wet dress rehearsal and
hot fire the four RS-25

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engines and do a complete
end to end functional