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Rocket Motors
provide the power needed to launch NASA's

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Space Launch System (SLS)
rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Moon.

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Here are some of our key partners
in motor development for Artemis.

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In Kentucky, ASRC supplies a polymer binder -

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the glue that holds the SLS booster
propellant together.

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Central Valley Machine in Utah makes metal
fasteners used to join the motor

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segments of the boosters.

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The large stainless steel
fittings for the boosters are produced

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by Patriot Machine,
Incorporated in Missouri.

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Northrop Grumman in Maryland
makes the attitude control motor

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for the world's first qualified
and controllable solid propulsion system

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for Orion's Launch Abort System.

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The LAS is a tower
on top of the capsule that can pull it

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and the crew to safety in the event
of an emergency during launch or ascent.

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Fiber Materials Inc.

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designs and fabricates

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materials and components for the abort
tower’s propulsion system in Maine.

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Northrop Grumman Corp.,
headquartered in Virginia, oversees

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solid rocket motors production for SLS
and the Orion Launch Abort System.