Space

Artemis II Center Phase Comes To Kennedy

.Teams carry NASA's SLS (Room Release System) primary stage in to the Car Installation Structure at the agency's Kennedy Space Facility in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and dragging boats moved the Pegasus barge and 212-foot-long core phase 900-miles to the Florida spaceport from NASA's Michoud Installation Resource in New Orleans, where it was created and also assembled.In the coming months, crews will definitely combine the spacecraft core phase atop the mobile phone launcher along with the additional Artemis II air travel equipment, including the twin sound spacecraft enhancers, launch lorry stage adapter, and also the Orion spacecraft.The Artemis II exam tour will be NASA's initial objective along with crew under the Artemis campaign, delivering NASA rocketeers Winner Glover, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman, in addition to CSA (Canadian Space Company) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day adventure around the Moon as well as back.Apply the upcoming intervene this adventure on NASA's Artemis blog site.Text credit scores: Jason Costa.Photo credit scores: NASA/Kim Shiflett.