Space

Artemis II Core Stage Gets To Kennedy

.Teams transport NASA's SLS (Space Launch Body) primary stage right into the Car Setting Up Structure at the organization's Kennedy Space Center in Fla on July 24, 2024. Tugboats as well as dragging crafts relocated the Pegasus burst as well as 212-foot-long primary stage 900-miles to the Fla spaceport from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where it was actually created and assembled.In the coming months, teams will certainly integrate the rocket core stage atop the mobile launcher along with the extra Artemis II trip equipment, consisting of the identical twin solid spacecraft boosters, launch car stage adapter, and also the Orion space capsule.The Artemis II exam tour are going to be NASA's first goal along with staff under the Artemis campaign, sending NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and also Reid Wiseman, as well as CSA (Canadian Space Company) rocketeer Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day trip around the Moon as well as back.Abide by the next action in this journey on NASA's Artemis blog site.Text credit history: Jason Costa.Graphic debt: NASA/Kim Shiflett.