Space

Artemis II Center Phase Reaches Kennedy

.Staffs carry NASA's SLS (Space Launch Unit) primary stage right into the Auto Assembly Structure at the firm's Kennedy Room Facility in Fla on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and also towing boats moved the Pegasus barge and also 212-foot-long primary phase 900-miles to the Fla spaceport coming from NASA's Michoud Installation Location in New Orleans, where it was actually created and also set up.In the coming months, teams are going to combine the spacecraft core phase atop the mobile launcher along with the additional Artemis II trip components, including the twin sound rocket boosters, launch motor vehicle phase adapter, as well as the Orion spacecraft.The Artemis II exam tour are going to be NASA's very first objective with workers under the Artemis project, delivering NASA rocketeers Victor Glover, Christina Koch, as well as Reid Wiseman, in addition to CSA (Canadian Room Company) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day experience around the Moon as well as back.Abide by the following intervene this journey on NASA's Artemis blog post.Text credit score: Jason Costa.Picture credit history: NASA/Kim Shiflett.