Massive Artemis 1 rocket stacked by NASA in epic time-lapse
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.พ. 2022
- The Space Launch System rocket that will power NASA Artemis 1 mission to the moon has been assembled at the Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida. Watch all the pieces come together in this time-lapse.
Credit: NASA - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
The Vehicle Assembly Building is incredible. You see the crane lifting the massive first stage vertically and it's nowhere near as tall as the building.
Its bay doors are the largest of any building in the world, they're over 450 feet tall!
You heard of mechazilla? They do a better job of this, also on a better rocket.
450 feet are equivalent to how much washing machines in length?
@@SP-dw9gi SpaceX's tower is 469 feet tall, the VAB is taller at 526 feet. "Mechazilla" is not the largest single-story building in the world, does not have doors, was not constructed in the 1960's, and hasn't assembled vehicles that went to the moon. Whatever "better job" they do is on a vehicle that's never flown powered by engines that have never reached orbit. Wait, what was your point again?
@Desmond Hawkins The point is that SpaceX doing bigger and reusable rocket with capacity of 3 launches per day (SLS just 1 launch in year!) at much lower costs, without huge and massive expensive buildings. You right, obviously in terms of building size, NASA doing amazing (although very, very expensive) job back then and now.
By the way, Starship already flown using ENGINES, although not orbital flight yet but that would be done already too if not FAA.
@@pavnazwisko9196 Yes, it'll be amazing when it happens. I'm just not sure what the point is of coming in to a comment thread that's completely unrelated to SpaceX with some cult-like fanboyism, putting down everything that's not SpaceX and all-knowing Elon. The only point I was making was that the VAB is a massive building. Their tower is not a building, it doesn't have these massive doors, and it's literally under construction. Reserve the praise for actual achievements is what I'm saying, not shiny promises - however exciting and worthwhile they may be.
Just can't wait till I see it in the sunlight..
NASA tests it cranes every 90 days as part of their metrology department. I used to work there. These cranes are probably rated at 200 tons could be more. Great rotate capability.. Also the words might get uttered, "your left or my left?
Nice to hear comment from someone who knows.
You are NASA🤩
Slightly higher resolution and quality textures and 3D assets, but pretty much exactly how rockets are built in Kerbal Space Program!
How many times during assembly did these words get uttered: Ah man....these holes don't line up?! Hand me that pry bar. :-)
I hear you. But you have to admit.. You, I and a 100 of our friends would take that much time [just to build] the "lifting crane"... Just like the SaturnV, they are building the near-impossible, again (in my lifetime). And of course this is not their only ongoing endeavor. Webb comes to mind. Just saying. Cheers CB
*Proton flashbacks
I was talking about the proton rocket from Russia that flipped over, and crashed because an engineer used a hammer and a whole lot of dedication to smash a upside-down accelerometer into a part of the rocket.
@@ovalwingnut this thing is a piece of crap! Go SpaceX, I don't like old tech.
Not once.
@@ovalwingnut he isnt talking trash about the timescale hes talking trash about the workmanship. Fighting words if you ask russia.
Approach to stacking rocket
NASA: Let's build an multi-floor infrastructure
SpaceX: Let's use a crane
Jokes aside, can't wait to see this beast fly!
Well, that multi-floor infrastructure let you build something huge and protected from the elements. The VAB is modular; they can extend floor sections out around a stacked rocket so the tech and engineers can be right there, and on the level they need to be. If you're going to fly something the size of a Saturn V, which is what the Artemis SLS is, this is how you do it best. And for the record, this beast is going to thunder when they send it up. I was an itty-bitty kid when they last flew a Saturn V, with no living memory of them launching...seeing one of these things go up will be special.
@@rjpx947 spacex is stacking their starship with a crane which is much bigger than SLS
Best Kerbal Space Program Animation ever! ;-)
They clearly must be running it on some fancy and expensive PC hardware to pull off such detailed and smooth animation...
Thank you!
And we're off to the comment section to see what the experts think....
It doesn’t say so, but this is actually a 20-year timelapse.
The timelapse is just a few days of putting the rocket together. It's not 20 years.
@@yakuza_suske3189 Sorry, that was a sarcastic comment on NASA’s glacial pace of development regarding an essentially 50-year old shuttle-derived system. Bottom line is that SLS is basically a vendor/congressional pork project just like the shuttle was a vendor/congressional pork project.
Great blend of technology and music = modern magic. 🚀
Epic is definitely the word!
At 0:35, pause and take a look at the enormous thickness of the solid rocket booster fuel as they get stacked.
Drop a sparkler in it i dare you.
@@garrl007 Ironically, both the SRB and the sparkler have fuel agents that contain compacted aluminum powder. Burns at 6000F!
Proud moment when I see parts I made! Hint, there are 16 of them.....
Which ones? The booster rings maybe?
@@thethirdman225 We make the "Aero Heat Shields". They are a stainless steel lid that covers and protects the booster separator motors(rockets). The are blasted open by the rockets and latch in the open position. They are considered a mission critical item. If they were to break, the lid could hit the Shuttle or the liquid fuel tank. We hadn't made these for several years between the shuttle program and now. Good thing we kept all the fixtures and machine programs!
@@stevereid7140 Excellent! Good to hear. Thanks for the info!
They have to use "epic time-lapse". Kinda like showing the continent's move. NASA and geology run in similar time frames.
Geology's faster
Evolution is faster
Nonsense
For comparison... How many world's largest rockets have you and your team built?
@@MrGriff305 about 5, why do you ask?
Espetacular !
Can’t wait until 2035 when we will finally see this massive thing launch
Good one 💯
Might be a bit overoptimistic of you.
Just remember that the JWST was at one time planned to be launched somewhere around 2007-2008, so adjust your expectations accordingly relative to the size and complexity of the object and task in question, and you're good to go!...
Guess I’ll be missing it. Maybe I’ll actually have a better vantage point. Or not.
@@snydedon9636 good man - we will see all, know all... :-)
That's some setup that wow
Amazing feat !
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wow beautifully safe job on the rocket
Brilliant
Feels like watching it from another time continuum.
Fanstatic
Me like 😊°
All humans are FLASH in this video
Crazy to think now that all of this is disposable. Like a tissue paper
since you said that, now ask yourself "why does it have orange/brown insulation on it if there are no thermal protection system (re-entry tiles) to protect and its all going to be thrown away.
@@ILSRWY4 mate, those are not reentry tiles.
Amazing what some competition can do
Right! The stacking of starship happened pretty much the same time lol.
@@swingtag1041 The Boca Chica facility is designed for this singular purpose, of making Starship prototypes in the least amount of time possible.
As majestic as the SLS stacking looks, it is an obsolete launch vehicle before it was put together. A heavy-lift vehicle, put together awkwardly with shuttle-era components, using expensive and reusable RS-25 engines for a non-reusable mission. At most, it would launch two per year, and at this rate, it can't put a colony on the Moon.
The competition is Starship, a fully and rapidly reusable rocket theoretically capable of three launches per day. And even though it is a much more sophisticated vehicle, it is cheaper than SLS and is produced at a faster rate.
The solid fuel cylinders stacking together looks like stacking a fuel tanks in Space Flight Simulator
There are quite many fans of Elon musk in the comment section.
A bunch of losers that need to cheer to scientific progress like it is football or hockey. Gosh, I hope Musk and Nasa together send these morons straight into the Sun's Corona ASAP
@@antoniousai1989 🤣
Musk fanboys are the worst kind.
@@antoniousai1989 Jokes aside I don't see what's wrong about being excited for the work he has done. I'm not a musk fanboy myself, but some of the stuff he's been doing the last few years is pretty insane.
@@antoniousai1989 They’re planning to go to Mars. I wish them well. Hopefully they won’t come back.
Righty tighty, lefty loosey.
When does it launch. Let's do this! People need inspiration again.
It is supposed to launch in March. Only time will tell if that really happens...
@Bailey Farms Gaming Oh, the disappointment must be too much. "I want it and I want it now!"
@Bailey Farms Gaming thats to bad
I got inspiration...from spacex.
@@ThatOpalGuy SpaceX has his own money by starlink but nasa has only a few of the us budget
I know, SpaceX’s OLIT is cool and all, but the VAB is amazing!
Me building rockets in KSP:
That IS impressive...a city built to build a colossal rocket with I believe a lucrative contract for 20 single use SLS's NASA SHOULD be this transparent & inspiring. Show the people what their tax will build. I say cut that contract down to 2 max. However awesome the rocket & secret lair facility is single use everything needs to become history.
It's only a matter of time.
damn, the billions that just went into the building and rocket to have it dumped in the ocean?
"It is one thing to build a skyscraper. It is another thing to lift it up off the ground."
That was fast.
I can't wait to see this launch!!!
Let's get a group to go!!!
Anyone in Florida?!?!
007
This ain't no party line . Fuck off loser no one wants to kick it w you
For real, who the fuck signs off as 007... Cringe.
The buggy whip of rockets.
I would drive by the booster at Nasa in Miss. When it was in the test stand for test. I was on the road in nasa when I would pass it by in my visits for work. I saw it before it makes the trip to the moon
Imagine KSP 2 looks like this lol
bravo nasa
Kerbal Space Program be like....
Hello from morocco north African
So old school.. Like 1969 man on the moon old school
So then we can expect you won't watch or follow the progress of the SLS program. Good. Less negativity on what will happen anyway is always a good thing.
Guys, guys, guys. Stop for a second to remember why we are doing all of this. Forget about the anti-government big spending babble for just one second. Forget about the "this is the old way of doing things" rhetoric for a minute. PLEASE.
In the interests of scientific endeavor and exploration, for one god damn minute, let cooler heads prevail.
Thank you!
Let's remember why humanity is doing this. Let's have the courage to go boldly into the future. Let's secure our place among the stars. Let's entice the universe to give way to our human curiosity. Let's never give up when the odds seem staked against us. Let's give our great great grandchildren something to look back on and feel a small measure of pride for having the tenacity to see humanity through to the other side of The Great Filter which lays ahead of us.
Remember all of this, the next time somebody with a small minded agenda tries to convince you that you should be small too. I beg of you. Never believe that it is safe to put all of your eggs in one basket, so to speak. I mean, when was the last time you saw a dinosaur roam the earth? They didn't have the agency to save themselves. On the other hand, we do.
And if not us organic beings, than our mechanical proxy's shall achieve what no human has done before. I say all the power to them. Even if that means we must alter what it means to be organic life forms by placing human minds into mechanical avatars for the same ends.
Let us make our mark on the cosmos, forevermore. We have earned the right to meet the future with our heads held high! Remember that.
Delta_Tesseract *84-72*
Great post and it expresses exactly how I feel. At least with NASA, we can see where our hard earned tax dollars are being spent.
People hate SLS not because they think space travel is a waste of money, but because it is an obsolete design, awkwardly pieced together with shuttle-era components. More and more people following the dream of making life multi-planetary, a goal that cannot be achieved by the likes of SLS. For the idiots believing space exploration is pointless? They probably also think Earth is a flat disk on a giant turtle, their opinions don't matter.
During the Apollo era, the %GDP spent on the space program is far higher than today. Back then, progress is made every day, pushed by a burning desire to reach the heavens above. With the same amount of time to piece together the SLS, the NASA 60 years went from sub-orbital flights to footprints on the moon. But they stopped there, and they have failed the moment they give up.
@@kerbodynamicx472 That's what bugges me about the Apollo system. Our govt did not follow up with its tremendous success and NASA's tremendous lead in space exploration over the entire world and instead abandoned it and is now spending billions to recreate technology that was already achieved decades ago.
It's a big WHY? moment that will never be answered.
@@jerrylee8261 don’t blame Nasa. Blame the American public who got bored of Apollo and so they cut their budget. At least we got the first reusable space vehicle after it the amazing shuttle!
@@kerbodynamicx472 Personally I think it looks great, and it's been a long time since we've seen a moon-capable rocket take to the skies. With the SLS we can put an entire long-term base on the moon. Looks like a modern version of the Saturn V and I don't have a problem with that.
and when is the launch?
When is it supposed to launch?
KSP ♥️
Marvelous Assembly Sequence (MAS). This short video really increased my confidence in NASA doing the near-impossible (again). "To the Moon Alice!" Thanks so much
10 billion firecracker
When is this damned thing going to launch already?!
NASA's playing KSP in real life
How many days was this timelapse shot over?
Meanwhile, In Boca Chica,.....
Eger to see in action
I wish I could work for u guys
👍
Honey, hand me a bigger hammer…
Judging from most of the comments, this is definitely the: "8itch about everything generation". Outstanding :O/
Nah, it's not the generation. This is the internet, it's the bitch-about-everything _place_
@@swingtag1041 I hear you David p.s. you might want to refine those elegant words just a tad. But I don't want to micro manage) You RoCk! Cheers.
Wow...😶
Attention SpaceX trolls: take it somewhere else.
The fanboys are in the house
@@andrewwilliams9419 They can't help themselves.
Wow, i didn't believe it would ever actually stack.
How sections are connected - by bolts ?
Duct tape
This is SLS right?
yep
Slow late shitty
This makes it look way too easy
00:53 Tribute to STS-107... Columbia.
If it staked why is it not launch
Side buster from space shuttle era:
Orange tank from space shuttle era
Engines from space shuttle era
Can anybody tell me where is the innovation?
they're building a rocket, not a lego set lmao
Orion capulsule probably
I think it would be better without music. It does not fit to time lapse video with a tone or speed
Hi
Do they throw away 4 SSMEs every time?
Yep. Great design, huh?
Surely.
We are entrusted with the launch and transportation of OMOTENASHI.
What else are you going to use them for?
@@thethirdman225 They’re the same reusable engines that were used on the Space Shuttle! They’re **designed** to be reused!
@@bradwooldidge6979 No shit, Sherlock? And which project were you planning to use them on?
Look at all those federally funded resources of assembling devices, they could've assembled a massive production for the SpaceX Starship. Or the resource supplies shiped to other planets, to colonize. Bots, infastructure life support gadgets etc.
HURR DURR THE FED TOOK TEH MY TAX DOLLRSSSSS. This facility has been around since the days of Apollo. It's both a manufacturing, integration and test bed platform for current and future rocketry, and the federal government will continue to fund it, as they should ,for public (not private) sector space initiatives.
And they didn't even have to build the assembly building, the launch tower, or the transporter (I assume). And yet, years and years and billions and billions
@@TactileCoder 🤣 SINCE Apollo missions. Ah your tax is, getting there, SLOW, but surly, like when every earthling has to leave the planet 😏 ( thats if SpaceX borrowed & modified it 🤔💡).
@@RB-jv6un Some stats for you to reference. The Iraq war cost roughly $2 trillion dollars. That's enough money to have funded the Apollo program (with all of the R&D, launches, etc.) 8 times (adjusted for inflation too). NASA has been woefully underfunded for many, many years. Whenever a politician, left or right, comes into office, the first thing they cut is things like NASA over say the inflated military budget. This causes NASA to make hard choices in choosing what programs to fund in the small budget they have. That means sometimes canceling programs or otherwise delaying or even halting it, which makes restarting the initiatives more expensive in the process.
but I don't expect you or this thread's OP, the worm-brained QAnon guy, to ever make this simple cause-effect connection on _why_ NASA is slow at producing things.
@@TactileCoder NASA is slow cause they have a bunch of boomers running the show. SpaceX is newer and fresher thought. These guys at NASA are still making rockets like they did in the 50s common man!
The time lapse doesn't fast-forward the 20+ years this vehicle spent in development hell
20 years is an exaggeration. The SLS vehicle began development in 2011. Inadequate and inconsistent funding from Congress had a lot to do with the delays in getting the SLS to its first flight.
in the meantime SpaceX builds a better machine outside using home depot parts and rented cranes....
That's the huge difference between government funded and private!!
At 5-10% of the cost and it's reusable.
You can stop licking boots bro, SpaceX doesn't hire morons anyway.
@@understandingautism1389 SpaceX is government funded. SpaceX rockets explode on a regular basis 😅
@@MrGriff305 There's a significant difference between Boeing, Northop Grumman, and United Launch Alliance's entire rocket businesses being dependent on having government contracts (which were all until recently cost plus, which incentivized cost and schedule overruns), and SpaceX being a self-sustaining business focused primarily on serving private customers which also wins government fixed price contracts (which disincentivize cost and schedule overruns).
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Though it's not really a related issue, regarding your claim that "SpaceX rockets explode on a regular basis": Falcon 9's are very reliable rockets. They have failed to reach orbit twice, the second instance of which occurred in 2016. The rocket design has been improved numerous times since then, and the last 110 launches have all successfully reached orbit.
Their in-development next generation Starship rocket _does_ explode a lot of course, but that's an intended and expected result of their rapid-iteration "fail faster" development philosophy. They could take more time to make sure that it didn't ever blow up during testing (as NASA and its contractors did with the SLS, and Blue Origin is doing with their New Glenn rocket), but that would significantly increase the amount of time it takes for them to develop the rocket. It's faster to launch it, see what fails, fix that, and immediately launch another one to see what other issues might need to be fixed. Regarding SpaceX's rocket development, Musk said "Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating fast enough."
Kerbal space program irl
Amazing but jeez this took sooo long!
It's NASA and the gubmint'
@@Thunderbyrd. Why don’t you tell it like it is? NASA is a government funded organisation that is subject to endless oversight, meddling from Capitol Hill and virtually endless budget cuts. SpaceX has built its business on government funding too but is not subject to the same levels of public scrutiny NASA is and has a very visible CEO with and extremely refined PR image who everyone fawns over. Government is never going to be able to compete with that.
Flight date ???????
April 22, 2022 is the next planned date which could change again.
How much of that gets reused❓
C'est exactement comment dans kerbal
Simple is best
That's what the Pennsylvania Dutch believe, preserving the old ways.
Is this rocket reusable our a one and done
One and done. Even the SRB's will be thrown away, unlike the shuttle.
Me here wondering when the B.O. would put their rockets in commercial flights
B.O. seem to build more CGI, lawsuits and harassment charges then actual rockets.
Hopefully some of the smaller companies will overtake them, more competition advances us all along further, faster.
Maybe it'll make it to the launch pad around the time Elon is done building the first city on Mars.
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Oldies lol
😍
SLS just perfectly shows how constant delays can eventually outdate a rocket.
10 years ago, this video would've excite every space enthusiast in the world. But today we wonder why this project hasn't been canceled yet. Then to wonder they canceled the later apollo missions, now they're burning that money on a rocket that can only fly 1 time.
Yeh not really excited for this rocket your right its outdated can only use it once. Starship is what we want to see
when I search "the most advanced rocket" ....this garbage comes up IDK why .....instead of falcon 9 and starship
@@jontait1095 Speak for yourself.
Why can’t you guys just fuck off? Some of us are interested in this and that means not drinking the SpaceX Kool Aide.
Well said.
This is SLS. Sure you didn't mean to write "epoch time-lapse"?
Bezos just cried
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Rocket surgery!
Why are they so confident in this thing if it's never actually flown yet.
Is this a trick question or something?
@@thethirdman225 lol no I'm genuinely curious about it. I'm just realizing now tho what I said doesn't make any sense considering it's a one time use vehicle. What I meant is how do they know it will work perfectly first try if they haven't done any previous test flights with this type of rocket before?
@@stefannalli4677 All the major parts have flown before.
@@thethirdman225 I see
i remember this was suppose to launch in 2017 🤣
The ULTIMATE Lego set?
🤣
Seriously though, that is one fine looking rocket! Good flight! 👍🔥🔥
M 🦘🏏😎
No it's not it looks like a piece of crap.Starship now that's a great looking rocket. Go SpaceX!
@@SP-dw9gi Name-calling?
Really?
How childish.
@@markdowse3572 lol, you think it look good? Be honest man.
The ultimate Lego set is Starship, pieced together by tens of steel rings. one ring at a time!
@@kerbodynamicx472 how do you suppose Artemis is put up? You think these boomers use newer methods? Exactly stfu.
To think spaceX just stack it’s rocket within a few hours and it’s payload cap has a 20t advantage to this is a bit telling. Seems dated and far too slow. It may be time tested and known rocket tech but nothing is 100% and if it goes boom. No replacing it. if Ss goes boom, there’s another one wheeled out of a hanger.
Then go and watch some SpaceX videos and stay away.
Thats the beauty of applied engineering over analytics. SpaceX plans for and requires failures to fine tune their designs. NASA requires everything to go off perfectly the first time and every time after that. Imagine what Elon could do if the federal government just routed that 0.38% of the federal budget NASA gets straight to SpaceX. The Expanse would move from Sci-fi to sci-fact within 100 years. LOL
@@fakiirification Musk already gets a hell of a lot more money than SLS does. Musk isn’t subject to public oversight and endless funding cuts. If you’re only interested in tribalism, go somewhere else.
@@fakiirification
*_"Thats the beauty of applied engineering over analytics. SpaceX plans for and requires failures to fine tune their designs. NASA requires everything to go off perfectly the first time and every time after that."_*
Total nonsense. This is just simply not true. No space agency can operate that way and NASA doesn't, no matter how badly you view them. Do a TH-cam search for _"NASA Engineers Break SLS Test Tank on Purpose to Test Extreme Limits"_ and see for yourself.
Tested.
To.
Destruction.
Furthermore, do a search for _"NASA fires up RS-25 rocket engine for first time in 2022"._
*_"Imagine what Elon could do if the federal government just routed that 0.38% of the federal budget NASA gets straight to SpaceX."_*
Look at what else NASA is doing with its shrinking budget. It doesn't just launch spectacular rockets. It runs programs, of which SpaceX is a large part. And if you look closely enough, an awful lot of government funds get directed through to SpaceX. SpaceX would not exist without NASA. And unlike SpaceX, NASA is subject to a huge amount of public oversight and worse; fiddling and meddling from Capitol Hill. That's why this thing is behind schedule: they keep cutting the budget.
*_"The Expanse would move from Sci-fi to sci-fact within 100 years. LOL"_*
The market will decide what is useful and what isn't.
@@thethirdman225 "Tested, To, Destruction,...." Bro, do you even watch the number of tests done in Boca Chica ??? - so many Test to Destruction done that they can make money off the recycled stainless.
The negativity over SLS, is not about the science, or the engineering, or about the fanboi's for corporate space programs, it's about the pork barrelling that siphons off cash from an agency that has been underfunded for decades in to kickbacks. SLS funding doesn't just need to include what NASA has been spending, but what all the lobbyists have been spending to get all the jobs put in every second senators electorates for that good re-election advertising and self promotion.
The Indian Space Agency got a rocket to the Moon, and nearly got it's Lander to the surface, on the equivalent of US$300million. Compared to the money wasted in all the schemes attached to SLS, and papercliped to it's funding bills, SLS is a big cash prize of Billions of dollars for the politicians involved.
I can't wait until starship renders this pos obsolete.
Why do they have 40 guys watching a simple lift? No wonder it cost 2 billion a pop.
Because these things are obviously a lot more complex than you can imagine.
@@thethirdman225 Lol, like that time they dropped the $10 000 000 000 telescope, that got complex in a hurry.
@@markschroter2640 Lol, like that could never happen to anyone else. You can guarantee if it did, you’d never hear about it.
😊😊😊😊😊😊😋😊😊
Simply incredible.
The whole wide world
An endless universe
Yet we keep looking through
The eyeglass in reverse
Don't feed the people
But we feed the machines
Tax dollars squandered at inflated prices in time lapse
Correct me if i m wrong, I somehow feel the problem is nasa is slow in progressing these days . SpaceX will outdo everyone in humanity , which actually will be good I blv. But some might not agree or will they !? Thousands and billions of dollars of investment over decades. But I would really love them to collaborate and move things faster for saving money and making progress in real time.