Space

Artemis II Center Phase Arrives at Kennedy

.Crews carry NASA's SLS (Room Release System) core phase into the Auto Assembly Building at the agency's Kennedy Room Center in Fla on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and also hauling crafts moved the Pegasus barge and also 212-foot-long core phase 900-miles to the Florida spaceport coming from NASA's Michoud Assembly Center in New Orleans, where it was actually produced and also assembled.In the coming months, teams will certainly incorporate the spacecraft core phase atop the mobile launcher with the added Artemis II trip hardware, including the twin sound rocket boosters, launch lorry phase adapter, and the Orion space capsule.The Artemis II exam tour will be actually NASA's very first goal with staff under the Artemis initiative, sending out NASA rocketeers Victor Glover, Christina Koch, as well as Reid Wiseman, as well as CSA (Canadian Space Company) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day trip around the Moon as well as back.Apply the upcoming intervene this trip on NASA's Artemis blog post.Text credit history: Jason Costa.Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.

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