Space

Artemis II Primary Stage Arrives at Kennedy

.Groups transport NASA's SLS (Area Release Unit) center phase into the Car Assembly Building at the organization's Kennedy Room Facility in Fla on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and also towing boats moved the Pegasus burst and also 212-foot-long center stage 900-miles to the Florida spaceport coming from NASA's Michoud Setting up Location in New Orleans, where it was actually created as well as set up.In the coming months, groups will combine the rocket core phase atop the mobile launcher along with the added Artemis II tour equipment, consisting of the identical twin sound spacecraft boosters, launch motor vehicle stage adapter, as well as the Orion space capsule.The Artemis II exam trip will certainly be actually NASA's initial goal with staff under the Artemis initiative, sending out NASA rocketeers Victor Glover, Christina Koch, as well as Reid Wiseman, and also CSA (Canadian Area Company) rocketeer Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back.Abide by the following intervene this journey on NASA's Artemis weblog.Text debt: Jason Costa.Photo credit score: NASA/Kim Shiflett.