How We Make Rockets That Reach the Moon
Join Dr. Roger Billings and the Science Live team as we explore how we make rockets that reach the Moon, featuring NASA’s Artemis II mission — the first crewed return to the Moon in over 50 years!
In this lesson, discover what makes the massive SLS rocket so powerful: its giant solid rocket boosters, liquid hydrogen fuel, and the incredible engineering that lifts millions of pounds into space. You’ll also explore the advanced Orion spacecraft, the groundbreaking laser communication system that beamed HD video from 240,000 miles away, and the record-breaking 252,000-mile journey that took humans farther from Earth than ever before.
Whether you’re a budding space enthusiast, curious about the Artemis program, learning about rocket science, or dreaming of becoming an astronaut, this lesson has something for you. Perfect for students who want to understand the real engineering and technology behind sending rockets — and people — all the way to the Moon and beyond!
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Would love to see a rocket launch in real life!
wow the rockets were cool!!!
Those were awesome pictures from the moon.
Is it possible to solely live on the moon or would they need to fly in supplies every once in a while
Thankyou for making Acellus!
I love rockets
Who made the discovery of that species of alligator?
I can’t wait till they land on the moon.
Wow, this was a really enjoyable episode! Love learning about space.
THIS WAS AWESOME
Loved this episode, it was great!
Space and rockets are amazing and am so excited to dive deeper into this! defenitly watching this again!
This is my favorite video yet. Thanks for making these videos.
This was so cool! I watched a rocket launch with my grandparents just the other day.
Rockets are really interesting. I love space, this science live was cool. I loved all the space stuff this science live!
rockets are so cool!!! they completely blow my mind, definitely keep the space stuff happening
Wow I loved todays science live.
Wish I was an astronaut
Comment I liked the video
It’s crazy that we were able to make it back around the moon. I wonder how much easier it was to do this time because we had already done it before.
I wish Caleb and David Were on this one
I love science life
I actually didn’t know a whole lot about the Artemis missions until today. All I really knew was that they went around the moon and came back during the Artemis II mission, so it was actually really interesting to get to learn about that this week!
Were those laser shooting ships shooting each other or past each other?
I love learning about space stuff, it is really interesting to me!!
I thought that crocodile that ate Dinosaurs was insane! Imagine if we had a crocodile that large!
Learning about rockets is so interesting.
love watching you every week.
Flying saucer made me laugh so much. A crocodile that big would make me never ever go to Florida again.
i cant believe it i found this video so interesting.
Such a great live!
that was amazing
Love the rockets and learning about them!
Really enjoyed this week’s program, would love to see more science live revolving around space & airplanes.
the boosters on the side of the rocket when they fall off would they just fall back to earth
polybutadiene acrylonitrile (PBAN) is the chemical used as solid fuel in the rocket Also what is the proper combination of oxygen and nitrogen used in a standard US steel scuba tank.
SpaceX’s Starship has an interesting fuel resource
This was genuinely so interesting and I have a short attention span so I am so thankful it was entertaining. It’s so hard to grasp how far we have gotten and how much we have learned (I would buy a moon rock from r51 :3 )
My future kids could say ” Dad, didn’t you see the second moon landing?”
I loved this episode
Signing in from Texas!
Wow, i never knew the science behing the rockets were so complicated!
I loved this one
I liked learning about how rockets can leave the earth and go to space.
Great video!
Rockets are awesome!
The space stuff this week was amazing!!!
I love science live!
Loved learning about all the rockets and how the spaceships get to the moon.
Why do we need this to power rockets and what part of the rocket is it powering?
Nice to learn about rockets!
I Loved all of the space stuff this week.
I love learning about rockets
Wow that’s so cool how Bill Leer’s wife finished the air plane🥹🥹🥹
Space science is the most fasinating!
What is a laser made out of?
i love acelluse live it makes my day better
I love learning about rockets, one day I believe one of us Acellus students are going to go to space.
i love science
Oh,r 51!
I watched the landing
Space is so interesting!
i got to watch the Artemis 2 launch live online and it was really cool to watch! i thought i will never see anything as cool as that but i was wrong i get to see science live every week!
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What is a laser?
that was interesting
Tacking about all this space stuff is making me excited!
i loved to days science live
this so fire science is sick
I loved hearing bout the Artemis 2!
science is the best
is it true that they did Apollo 13 also konw as the moon thanding did it 2
I like science 🧪 live.
I can’t believe I’m alive to witness something so extrordinary!
Wow! So interesting!
i learned about how rockets were made and how awesome it is.
This new course seems interesting
Thank you so much!
I always love to learn about space thank you!
The alligator was cool and so was the artimus space should be explored to full capacity it it’s so huge itd take forever but still very cool
Science live is awesome
love all of these space videos, there so cool.
Love hearing and watching the launches. A friend went to college down in Florida for Aerospace. Pretty awesome
rocket technology is still something so insane to me. like what do you mean we can actually leave earth!
Can’t wait till the day we reach mars
SO COOL!
i like how they are trying to figure out to get the rockets to the moon
Dr. Roger Billings is my inspiration!!!!
I wish I could go to the moon.
I would really like to go to space, I want to feel how the lack of gravity feels
That’s really cool, learning about rockets… I’m excited to see the next video about rockets here on Acellus. 😀
Wow, rockets are so cool. I can’t believe they’re a real thing sometimes.
Science live was awesome today!
who actually made and came up with the first rocket
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Hey! It’s science time!
R-51 is awsome.
This was a great science live, i enjoyed watching it with my family!!
Learning about rockets was so interesting
The space stuff was awesome this week! I loved it, cant wait for next week!
Sick video, I like the idea on rockets.
Is it likely we will ever live on the moon?
I love sience live
Researchers at Columbus State University have created the first fully-accurate model of the Deinosuchus Schwimmeri, a prehistoric crocodile that could grow up to 31 feet long, with its main diet consisting of dinosaurs. As with any other ancient creature, this replica was made by finding hundreds or potentially thousands of its bones and piecing them together.
I watched the rocket launch a few weeks ago.
I loved it alllll
It’s a lot of fun to learn from Dr. Billings
This live was amazing!
I agree that Mars is a very interesting planet. Thank you for today’s lesson. Super Cool!!!!!!
Science lives are my favorite time of the week
That r51 part always cracks me up
Thank you dr billings for this program
Great Video!
R.51 did not get moon rocks from the moon or Mars ☄️
The artemis rocket is so cool!
Hi from NC.
Awesome video!!
Nice video!
I have the lego artames set. keep up the good work.
I think it’s cool how you’re able to see the effect space has on humans in the clips.
How incredible!
The stuff the rocket mission accomplished is incredible!
Something about space and rockets fascinate me. I love space and learning about how the rockets are built and sent into space. I never knew how much rockets weighed until now and how precise the astronomers have to be for the signal from space to reach them.
thank you for teaching us such cool stuff!!!
I love watching science live with my cat
R51 is so funny. I love science live
I was surprised at how heavy the rockets are.
It would be cool to have a science class based on space travel, the planets, and conspiracy theories.
The artimis is so cool
Great video last night.
I love science live!!!
very cool, Loved this science live!
When we put a station on the moon that is going to be sick.
Seeing the actual control room is so awesome!
did r 51 meet aliens 🤔
i love this.
This Science Live was amazing! Being able to learn about rockets and how they reach the moon was amazing!
How long did it take engineers to build the Artemis two rocket?
I find it very interesting that the distance to the moon is 10x the distance around earth
really love this science live
Coming from Texas
science live is fun
Great week for Science Live yayyy!!
So awesome. I like rockets.
This was an interesting science live
amazing, absolutely spiffing.
Wow, rockets are so cool. I can’t believe they’re a real thing sometimes.
Same! 😉
thank you so mcuh
I enjoy these lives so much
I wonder if we really went to the moon. Those old videos seem fake.
The rocks are so cool!
I loved hearing of the rocket and how it made it to the moon. Love science live
Rockets are so freaking cool!!
rockets are so interesting!
Loved all of the space stuff this week!
R51 is hilarious and learning about space is amazing
The moon is so beautiful.
That was one of the funniest area 51 moments I have ever seen.
I like since live
Pban is not the fuel it’s amounaim and aluminum to propel the rocket in to earth’s atmosphere.
Love Rockets and.learning about them. Didn’t realize how big and spacious they are.
How much does it cost to go to the moon. I bet the fuel is so much
I really like this video about learning more about rockets
What are the fuel costs on one trip to the moon?
I thought that was beautiful how Mr. Leer’s wife was able to carry on his legacy even though he died and she had no knoweldge of airplanes or being an inventioneer. I thought it was cool how the Artemis mission communicated back with earth. Do astronauts sleep rotating inside the spacecraft or do they strap themselves down when they go to bed?
I think rockets are some coolest things ever invented.
This is awesome!!
the moon and space is so cool!
I love Science!
I like the moon rock.
here from Nebraska, awsome video
sorry im late but im here to learn!!!
Hi from Nevada! The astronauts must have had to be really, really, really brave and confident in their abilities and their co-workers abilities to agree to go to space. Imagine how scary that must have been for their families. Anne they made it home safe! Woo-hoo!
We saw some earth pictures.
i love r51! and the moon rocks r51 made
roger billings is awesome
River I think r51 is funny.
Starting my day with Dr. Billings and team!
So glad to have you here Jazmyn!
I lile the space stuff and I can’t wait for more stuff to come out
That sounds so exciting! I hope you love it!
R 51 you are to funy!
Very fun video this week!
When the rocket on the news launched i thought it was AI because it was also on April Fools Day, which would make it seem more fake. This Science live was interesting though.
i love acelluse live it makes my day better
LOL, I thought it was fake too!😅
thats what my mom thought too lol
I love the moon rock that r51 made. Science live is my favorite. I look forward to it every week.
i want to go to the moon.
great live see you guys next week
The belly ache joke is hilarious! The science live episodes are both informative and such fun. 🙂
This was really fun and cool.
The video quality from the Artemis 2 is amazing!
Very educational lesson!
Great video! Loved the space topic. Personally I’ve always been fascinated while also being a bit nervous when it came to anything space related.
This was the best one yet
I love science live
Loved this one
Enjoy it!!!
this was funt to learn
i dont belve we even went to the moon
@Houston, unfortunately I agree with you… we have videos of the Artemis crew EATING SOUP in space but we only have still pictures of Earth from one angle. Why couldn’t they have, say, taken a video out the window of the other things they passed in space?
I would love to go to space some day.
Who had the idea in the very being to make a rocket and did it work?
This chinese emperor (I don’t remember his name), he put some fireworks on a chair and launched them, that is generally known as the first rocket
very stunning the info about what the astronauts experimented in space. well, everything is just perfectly created !!!
I love the moon rock that r51 made. Science live is my favorite
wow!! this is so cool, i wanna be an astronaut
I enjoyed learning about the rockets,
I loved hearing about the spaceship laser to earth and back