Watch NASA’s Rocket Engine Fireplace Holiday Video, It’s Just Plain Awesome

Who doesn’t associate the roaring, and crackling sound of rocket engines with Christmas these days? For those who may, or may not, NASA wants to kick off the Christmas season with a warm and cozy 8 hour 4K fireplace video. The space agency does point out that technically the fireplace packs the heat of the SLS rocket’s four RS-25 engines and a pair of solid rocket boosters. Which is more than enough warmth to negate Jack Frost nipping at anyone’s nose.

The Artemis I Moon mission was the first integrated flight test of NASA’s Deep Space Exploration Systems -- the Orion spacecraft, Space Launcher System (SLS) rocket, with the upgraded Exploration Ground Systems at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission lasted a total of 25 days, 10 hours, and 53 minutes, while travelling a total of 1.4 million miles. The Orion spacecraft reached ...