# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BHmc5MGhgg4
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15346688-nasaartemis-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/d50e3d92f5.jpg
- **Posted:** 2016-07-08T12:39:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

While this may look like a futuristic tunnel to another world, it is really looking up inside a nearly complete fuel tank for NASA’s powerful, new rocket—the Space Launch System—that will take humans to destinations never explored by people before.  At over 300-feet tall and 5.75 million pounds at liftoff, SLS needs plenty of fuel to leave Earth. Once a final dome is added to the liquid hydrogen rocket fuel tank, shown here, it will come in at 27.5-feet in diameter and over 130-feet long, making it the largest major part of the SLS core stage (the "backbone" of the rocket). (NASA/Michoud/Steven Seipel) #sls #exploredeepspace #spacetech #rocket

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## Tags

spacetech, rocket, sls, exploredeepspace

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