{"id":61312,"date":"2019-10-17T21:53:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T13:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/boeing-builds-rocket-stages-for-nasas-artemis-missions\/"},"modified":"2019-10-17T21:53:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T13:53:50","slug":"boeing-builds-rocket-stages-for-nasas-artemis-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/boeing-builds-rocket-stages-for-nasas-artemis-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Builds Rocket Stages for NASA\u2019s Artemis Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>NASA<\/strong> and <strong>Boeing<\/strong> initiated a contract for the production of 10 Space Launch System core stages and up to eight Exploration Upper Stages to support the third through the twelfth Artemis missions. Up to 10 additional core stages may be ordered under the contract, leveraging active labor, materials, and facility resources and supply chain efficiencies for production savings.<\/p>\n<p>SLS is NASA\u2019s deep space exploration rocket that will launch astronauts in the 27-metric ton Orion crew vehicle, plus cargo, from Earth to the moon and eventually to Mars. Boeing is the prime contractor for the rocket\u2019s core stage, avionics, and variations of the upper stage. The rocket is designed to be evolvable for missions beyond the moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe greatly appreciate the confidence NASA has placed in Boeing to deliver this deep space rocket and their endorsement of our team\u2019s approach to meeting this unprecedented technological and manufacturing challenge in support of NASA\u2019s Artemis program,\u201d said Jim Chilton, senior vice president of Boeing\u2019s Space and Launch division. \u201cTogether with a nationwide network of engaged and innovative suppliers we will deliver the first core stage to NASA this year for Artemis I,\u201d Chilton added. \u201cThis team is already implementing lessons learned and innovative practices from the first build to produce a second core stage more efficiently than the first. We are committed to continuous improvement as they execute on this new contract.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA and Boeing initiated a contract for the production of 10 Space Launch System core stages and up to eight Exploration Upper Stages to support the third through the twelfth Artemis missions. Up to 10 additional core stages may be ordered under the contract, leveraging active labor, materials, and facility resources and supply chain efficiencies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}