# SLS Water Suppression Can Create Dangerous Pressure Spikes, NASA Simulations Show - Date: 2026-03-20 - Category: Space & Aerospace Before Artemis II leaves the ground, NASA ran the numbers twice on what happens when a giant rocket plume meets a wall of water. The agency released details this week of a computational fluid dynamics study using its in-house LAVA framework — Launch, Ascent, and Vehicle Aerodynamics — applied to... ---