Space

Artemis II Center Phase Gets To Kennedy

.Teams deliver NASA's SLS (Area Introduce Unit) center stage into the Lorry Installation Building at the company's Kennedy Room Center in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and dragging boats relocated the Pegasus barge as well as 212-foot-long core stage 900-miles to the Fla spaceport coming from NASA's Michoud Assembly Resource in New Orleans, where it was created and constructed.In the coming months, teams will definitely include the spacecraft primary phase atop the mobile phone launcher with the added Artemis II air travel components, consisting of the twin strong rocket boosters, launch automobile phase adapter, and also the Orion space capsule.The Artemis II test flight are going to be NASA's initial purpose with crew under the Artemis campaign, sending out NASA rocketeers Winner Glover, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman, and also CSA (Canadian Room Firm) rocketeer Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day quest around the Moon and also back.Follow the upcoming steps in this experience on NASA's Artemis blog site.Text credit history: Jason Costa.Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.