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Through Artemis, the twin sister of\h
Apollo, we are returning to the Moon.

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This is Orion, the only human rated spacecraft\h
in the world capable of deep space travel.\h\h

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And now, the Space Launch System, NASA's\h
most powerful rocket since the Apollo era,\hstands ready.

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Having undergone and passed numerous\h
tests. the time has come to complete the journey.

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With hardware originating from every state\h
in the nation, and from partners around the\hworld,\h

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Artemis 1 will be the first flight test of\h
each of these components now assembled together.

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These two solid rocket boosters will provide more\h
than 75 percent of the thrust necessary to leave Earth. \h\h

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Each booster stands 17 stories tall. A full\h
segment more powerful than the SRBs of shuttle.\h\h

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Together these boosters are capable of 7.2 million\h
pounds of thrust and will burn for the first two\hminutes of flight.

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The core stage, at 212 feet, is the tallest rocket stage NASA has ever built.\h\h

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With the rocket's flight computer secured inside,\h
the core stage is designed to hold 2.3 million pounds of fuel.\h\h

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The 196 thousand gallons of liquid\hoxygen and the 537 thousand gallons of liquid hydrogen\hwill combine\h

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to provide eight and a half minutes\hof propellant to the four massive RS-25 engines\hmounted below.\h

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As proven workhorses of the shuttle\hfleet, each RS-25 engine has a legacy all its own.\h\h

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Together, these 4 engines provide 2 million pounds\h
of thrust and, with the SRBs, are capable of pushing\h\h

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Orion to a speed of 17 thousand miles-per-hour. The\h
Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage is a 45 foot\h\h

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tall upper stage that offers Orion nearly 25 thousand\h
pounds of thrust. Performing two separate burns,\h\h

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the ICPS will first raise Orion's orbit and, then,\h
later propel it out on a trajectory to the Moon.\h\h

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The ICPS is powered by a single RL10\hengine that will perform these two burns.\h\h

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This storied engine has propelled robotic missions\h
to every planet in the solar system, including\h\h

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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. The first space probes\h
to reach interstellar space. Orion Service Module,\h\h

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provided by the European Space Agency, is the\h
powerhouse that fuels and propels Orion in space.\h\h

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It stores the spacecraft's propulsion, thermal\h
control, electrical power, and critical life support

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systems such as water, oxygen, and nitrogen.\h
Orion's crew module is the pressurized segment of\h\h

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the spacecraft, where future crews will\h
live and work on journeys to the Moon.\h\h

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Capable of accommodating four crew members for up\h
to 21 days. This capsule includes state-of-the-art\h\h

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avionics, innovative crew systems, and the\h
largest heat shield of its kind for entry\h\h

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back into the earth's atmosphere. Positioned\h
at the top of Orion is the Launch Abort System,\h\h

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designed to pull the crew to\hsafety in the event of an emergency on the pad or during launch.

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Three solid rocket\hmotors can activate in milliseconds, accelerating from zero to 500 miles-per-hour in two seconds

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to\hpropel Orion and crew safely away from the rocket.\h\h

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Now, fully assembled Artemis I stands at 322 feet.

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Artemis is no longer a series\h
of separate parts and programs.

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United together, this is the\h
first of Artemis's arrows,\h\h

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capable of ushering in the next chapter of human\h
lunar exploration. Only together, this mighty system\h\h

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represents all that is possible. All that we are\h
capable of, when united around a stunning vision.\h\h

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With each component playing its part in a grander\h
effort, we the people of NASA and our partners,\h\h