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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what are the two side rockets used for?
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rockets have to use so much energy to even start up, don’t they? i’m really excited for how we decide to revolutionize and push renewable energy!!! awesome (:
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I loved everything I learned, especially how they made it possible to film 4K videos in space!
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I look forward to next week
I watched the rocket launch and I thought to myself… “wow, the stars must look amazing.”
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Although I’m not typically interested in learning about space, I found this episode to be rather fascinating.
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Why do you think humanity wanted to visit space in the first place?
My Aunt worked on the Artemis Rocket. She was part of the projects that were done in NASA’s New Orleans location.
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I am so glad science live did a video on things related to space, I loved the moon rock from r51!
These lives never disappoint. Cant wait for next week!
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This was so cool! See ya’ll next week!!
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wow! I did not know this was how rockets worked!
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Loved this episode!
could we put a rocket building kit in the Acellus store please? just a question though.
This is neat
The 2 main problems would probalay be the weight of the robot, and it not exploding from overheating, or overcook
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I can’t imagine the emotions the astronauts felt when seeing those beautiful sighting of the eclipses and planets in space, they’re so beautiful to look at!
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I think that the fact NASA has a launch fail safe is really crazy. I would hate to be an astronaut that was in a bad launch. I also enjoyed watching r-51. Science live rocks
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The rocket was really cool. I enjoy the pictures that they showed.
One of my parents friends actually worked on the rocket you compared to a football field today! I had no idea how that mission went before today, so I’m very glad it went smoothly!
Very interesting program this week!
science live has me learning so many new things every week
We missed the proteges this week. We enjoy how they explain things.
Honestly I think it’s really interesting on how we do build rockets that reach the moon. The fact that we can build a machine capable of exiting the Earth’s orbit is so cool!
rockets look so small from tv, it crazy
the rockets were cool
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I love this they are so funny can’t wait for next week
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Learned SO Much From This Live, Thanks!
WHAT HE INVINTED A MARS ROCKET
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How much fuel would it take to get to Mars?
Tobius’s lesson this week was amazing, my favorite part was knowing that the astronauts were safe.
how many people bin to the moon
I liked when they were talking about rockets
Good video! Also, I liked R-51’s Moon Rocks.
R51 is funny
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I loved the info i got it was also funny !!!
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Its really cool to learn about rockets. Thank you for continued learning.
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I really enjoyed this video!
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i never realized you needed deadly accuracy to communicate with astronauts
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the artemis 2 is cool.
Hi it’s a pleasure to see y’all I love Dr. billings and r-51’s work ty.
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The potential technologies that we might discover from mars would be mind blowing for sure, our society could evolve even further than before!
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ROCKETS!!!!!! Awesome…
Today was a very exciting episode, and I think it is awesome that we are going back to the moon.
so so cool!!
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I really enjoyed this week’s video. I can’t wait to learn more science next week!
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wow that’s a big crocodile. They want that thing to be. Replicated who that gives me the chills.
Wow, that is so cool.
R51 Is my favorite!! He’s always so funny and makes me laugh!
Going to the moon!
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wow those rockets were super cool!!!
is Mark Rogers related to Emily rogers
thanks for another informative session
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I love r51. It was so cool
I think it would be super cool to work on a rocket and get to experience kind of things like this!
Cant wait to see what bhappens when we get to the moon in 2028! Space is so cool.
i like this one more then the last one omg this was soo good!!
The sheer amount of math they must have to do for these rockets must be so time consuming. Its really crazy rockets even exist.
Space has always been so intriguing to me. I love science live!
r-51 you are so funny.thats why I like you.
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I would love to see a Science Live on theories of black holes. This week’s Science Live was very interesting.
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I wish I would’ve had the chance to meet the original apollo 11 crew to really hear from the guys who were able to conduct a successful first landing on the moon
The dino-eating crocodile was fun to hear a bit about
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R51 is awesome!
It is sometimes hard to believe that we as humans posses the knowledge to build rockets and super complex stuff like that. God really is amazing.
It must have been very scary to live with dinosaurs
The Artemis laser’s are super interesting to learn about!
Hello from California, this video was really cool thanks.
I love researching rockets!! Great Science Live episode!
Science live is awesome and so are rockets.
How come math and science are so alike.
Watching the rocket launch was so cool, the flames that come from it at lift off is crazy! How does the stand that holds it for lift off not completely melt away?
This was so cool,makes me want to do my own research on it!
How do they prepare their food in space?
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We saw some earth pictures
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I think that dinosaur at the start was a sarcosaurus
Who thought of launching into space?
I really enjoyed hearing about the Artemis II mission and how much the technology has developed over time.
I loved hearing about rockets
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It only took them two weeks to report on this rocket lol.
A Great Episode!
Area51 makes me laugh I really love it.
how long does it take to build a rocket?
I wanna go to the moon
The rocket looks so big. I always wonder how it doesnt burn up. Do any of your videos explain that better?
I like learning about space & rockets
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Why must r51 exist