Space

Artemis II Core Phase Comes To Kennedy

.Groups transfer NASA's SLS (Room Introduce System) center stage in to the Auto Setting Up Property at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and also lugging vessels relocated the Pegasus burst and 212-foot-long primary stage 900-miles to the Fla spaceport from NASA's Michoud Setting up Facility in New Orleans, where it was created and set up.In the coming months, groups will definitely incorporate the rocket center phase atop the mobile phone launcher along with the added Artemis II air travel components, consisting of the identical twin sound rocket enhancers, launch motor vehicle stage adapter, and also the Orion space capsule.The Artemis II exam trip will definitely be NASA's first purpose along with crew under the Artemis campaign, sending NASA rocketeers Winner Glover, Christina Koch, as well as Reid Wiseman, and also CSA (Canadian Space Company) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day adventure around the Moon and back.Apply the upcoming steps in this quest on NASA's Artemis blog post.Text credit: Jason Costa.Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.