Space

Artemis II Center Phase Arrives at Kennedy

.Staffs move NASA's SLS (Space Introduce Body) core stage right into the Auto Assembly Property at the agency's Kennedy Area Center in Fla on July 24, 2024. Tugboats as well as dragging vessels relocated the Pegasus burst and also 212-foot-long core stage 900-miles to the Florida spaceport from NASA's Michoud Installation Location in New Orleans, where it was produced as well as set up.In the coming months, staffs will certainly combine the spacecraft core stage atop the mobile phone launcher along with the extra Artemis II air travel hardware, including the identical twin solid rocket enhancers, launch automobile stage adapter, and also the Orion spacecraft.The Artemis II test air travel are going to be actually NASA's first goal with workers under the Artemis campaign, sending out NASA astronauts Winner Glover, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman, in addition to CSA (Canadian Room Company) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back.Apply the next come in this experience on NASA's Artemis blog post.Text credit scores: Jason Costa.Graphic credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.