Space

Artemis II Primary Stage Comes To Kennedy

.Staffs transfer NASA's SLS (Space Launch Device) center phase into the Auto Installation Building at the agency's Kennedy Room Facility in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and also lugging boats relocated the Pegasus barge as well as 212-foot-long primary stage 900-miles to the Florida spaceport coming from NASA's Michoud Assembly Center in New Orleans, where it was actually manufactured and also constructed.In the coming months, staffs will definitely integrate the spacecraft primary phase atop the mobile phone launcher with the extra Artemis II flight hardware, including the twin strong spacecraft enhancers, launch lorry stage adapter, as well as the Orion space capsule.The Artemis II examination air travel will definitely be actually NASA's very first goal with workers under the Artemis project, delivering NASA rocketeers Winner Glover, Christina Koch, and also Reid Wiseman, and also CSA (Canadian Space Agency) rocketeer Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day trip around the Moon and back.Abide by the following intervene this journey on NASA's Artemis blogging site.Text debt: Jason Costa.Photo credit rating: NASA/Kim Shiflett.