Watch Crews Build the Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter for Artemis II

This video shows how crews at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are manufacturing and assembling the launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) for the second flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The launch vehicle stage adapter in this video will be used for Artemis II, the first crewed mission of NASA’s Artemis program. The launch vehicle stage adapter is a cone-shaped piece of hardware that connects the rocket’s upper and lower stages. The LVSA is welded together as two unique cones, then stacked on top of one another. Technicians recently moved the aft cone to begin welding the LVSA at Marshall. While the larger stages of the SLS rocket are manufactured at other NASA facilities, the LVSA flight hardware is produced exclusively at Marshall by Teledyne Brown Engineering in Huntsville. For more information about SLS, visit www.nasa.gov/exploration/syst....

[@rtdu24]

Keep posting updates about the SLS Hardware, we love them! :)

[@racingmhf9157]

Beautiful progress on Artemis program

[@doxielain2231]

a mighty fixture

[@IstasPumaNevada]

Boeing: "Here's one clip of one part of one rocket being moved from one stand to another."
SpaceX fans: "We got video of Starship serial number 12's nosecone being stacked today, plus another thrust puck arrived, and it looks like they're using a slightly different design for the new support trusses that the aerodynamic fins attach to. Still no word on when the first stage will begin stacking, but they're bringing in _another_ crane with a heavier lift capacity and that might be to deal with moving the larger first stage once it's assembled, so we might be getting closer to that."

[@_mikolaj_]

Well, as they say, quality of the cone matters, not the amount ;)

[@brokensoap1717]

This hardware is going to be used to launch the first people beyond Earth Orbit and around the Moon for the first time since Apollo
A bit of a difference in significance between that and an outdoors welded rocket test vehicle(s)
Also this isn't from Boeing, the LVSA is built by Teledyne Engineering and Marshall space flight center
That being said this video is a bit too short and should have shown more footage (welding, stacking etc)

[@doxielain2231]

@@brokensoap1717 I want to see the friction welding and what is going to be done on that fixture. More porn, please

[@_mikolaj_]

@Omar Flores well, SN9 keeps getting delays, while Green run was accelerated, i think it is very possible, that we will see actual full duration burn in stennis before this "fart" at boca, that people call "static fire"

[@maquinsaabb7215]

@@_mikolaj_ SLS and starship have different developement strategies starship uses low quality-fast produced prototypes while sls's prototypes are exactly like the final thing but they need more time to be produced that's why sls will take more time until the first flight but with this technique you ensure success. Starship is a faster but way more risky aproach

[@PaddyPatrone]

How many month did it take to move that aluminum circle from one stand to another ?

[@macman1138]

It's a pity that such a wonderful piece of engineering will be used just once and thrown away.

[@gwal93]

I think SpaceX is going to get there before you and at a fraction of the cost. But keep going, the more the merrier.

[@macman1138]

I do believe that the SLS will be abandoned because of cost and SpaceX can do a much better job, much cheaper!