
ARCHIVED: NASA's Exploration Ground Systems
@NASAGroundSys
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We build, launch, and recover rockets and spacecraft for Artemis, humanity’s return to the Moon. 🚀🌕
Kennedy Space Center, FL
Joined December 2014
This account is now inactive. For official updates, news, and resources about Exploration Ground Systems, follow us at @NASAKennedy and @NASAArtemis.
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POV: You’re a pararescuer jumping out of a C-17 🪂✈️ . Watch this point-of-view footage from @NASAArtemis rescue demonstrations earlier this month, where teams rehearsed operations in the event of a pad abort or in-flight abort scenario. Part of this operation includes a C-17
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Using mannequin crew and the @NASA_Orion mockup Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), Exploration Ground Systems and @DeptofDefense teams in the sky and sea rehearsed procedures to rescue the @NASAArtemis II crew during an abort from Launch Complex 39B or during ascent to space. Teams
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Firing rooms 1 and 2 were bustling last week!. Exploration Ground Systems teams completed cryogenic and term count simulations, along with gaseous oxygen loading onto @NASA_Orion. Teams also completed a two-part safety abort demonstration to practice recovery operations in the
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Reminder: NASA's Exploration Ground Systems X account will be archived in one week. This account will remain available for your viewing. We will soon post updates about building, launching, and recovering Artemis missions via @NASAKennedy and @NASAArtemis.
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This week, Exploration Ground Systems and @DeptofDefense teams completed a two-part safety abort demonstration from the Launch Control Center at @NASAKennedy and in the waters near Cape Canaveral. This test prepares rescue personnel to recover crew and @NASA_Orion in the event of
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Important update: In the coming weeks, NASA's Exploration Ground Systems X account will be archived. To consolidate our social media presence, we will soon post updates about building, launching, and recovering Artemis missions via @NASAKennedy and @NASAArtemis.
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RT @NASAKennedy: Power up complete!. Teams powered up the @NASAArtemis SLS rocket core stage and solid rocket boosters inside the iconic V….
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In 2007, Liliana Villarreal joined @NASA. Now, she's the Artemis Landing and Recovery Director. “I think it’s an amazing thing what we’re doing for humanity. It’s going to better humanity, and it’s a steppingstone to eventually us living in other worlds. And I get to be part
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Pumped up! ⛽ . Teams with Exploration Ground Systems ready @NASA_Orion for stacking atop the Artemis II @NASA_SLS rocket by fueling the service module, provided by @esa. To complete this operation, teams stationed in the Launch Control Center oversee and direct fueling
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RT @NASAKennedy: Teams with @NASAGroundSys are preparing Artemis II with a series of integrated testing on the @NASA_SLS rocket. Engineers….
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RT @NASAKennedy: Power up 🔋✅.Technicians recently powered on the @NASAArtemis III Orion crew module. This initial power on marked the start….
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🔌Powered up!⚡ . Last week, Exploration Ground Systems teams powered up the @NASAArtemis II @NASA_SLS core stage and solid rocket boosters for the first time. Teams in @NASAKennedy’s Launch Control Center verified the systems and interfaces function between the flight hardware
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If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the flame trench 🔥 . The flame deflector at @NASAKennedy’s Launch Complex 39B will redirect the exhaust and intense heat of @NASA_SLS northward at liftoff, experiencing a peak heat of 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit. Teams with Exploration Ground
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RT @NASAArtemis: A jam-packed week for the Artemis II crew — paying homage to the Apollo 1 crew, going through emergency egress exercises,….
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The @NASAArtemis II crew visited @NASAKennedy this week! . With teams from NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems, they participated in Emergency Egress System training at Launch Complex 39B and the Vehicle Assembly Building, walked through the crew access arm of mobile launcher 1,
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Hitting the road 🚙🗺️. Last weekend, teams transported @NASA_Orion to the Multi-Payload Processing Facility, where they will begin fueling the crew and service modules. After fueling, teams will install the launch abort system on Orion at the Launch Abort System Facility before
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