first post on here , coil x rocket commission for @rifletownley !

The past couple of weeks have been packed with milestones for our Artemis program — the program that will land the first woman and the next man on the Moon!

Artemis I will be an integrated, uncrewed test of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket before we send crewed flights to the Moon.

On March 2, 2021, we completed stacking the twin SLS solid rocket boosters for the Artemis I mission. Over several weeks, workers with NASA's Exploration Ground Systems used one of five massive cranes to place 10 booster segments and nose assemblies on the mobile launcher inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.

On March 18, 2021, we completed our Green Run hot fire test for the SLS core stage at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The core stage includes the flight computers, four RS-25 engines, and enormous propellant tanks that hold more than 700,000 gallons of super cold propellant. The test successfully ignited the core stage and produced 1.6 million pounds of thrust. The next time the core stage lights up will be when Artemis I launches on its mission to the Moon!

In coming days, engineers will examine the data and determine if the stage is ready to be refurbished, prepared for shipment, and delivered to KSC where it will be integrated with the twin solid rocket boosters and the other rocket elements.

We are a couple steps closer to landing boots on the Moon!

Pascal Blanché, Fall75. DeviantArt, October 31, 2018.

Since launching our network we’ve been lucky enough to get advice, help and friendship from a ton of people across the audio fiction community. The Rocket Booster Program is our way of passing along some of that experience and enthusiasm to new creators.

If you’re a new writer/creator of audio fiction, Procyon’s founding creators (the people behind @iriscasefiles, @s2s-podcast and @underpressurepodcast) want to offer a free consultation on your scripts. 

The program is open to writers who will be 16 and older this year. To learn more and apply follow this link.

Month of Mecha 2019: Mech #3.