Space

Artemis II Center Stage Arrives at Kennedy

.Crews carry NASA's SLS (Room Introduce System) core stage in to the Car Assembly Structure at the company's Kennedy Room Facility in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and also towing vessels moved the Pegasus barge as well as 212-foot-long core phase 900-miles to the Fla spaceport from NASA's Michoud Assembly Center in New Orleans, where it was made and also put together.In the coming months, staffs will definitely incorporate the spacecraft core stage atop the mobile launcher with the extra Artemis II tour hardware, including the double solid rocket enhancers, launch auto phase adapter, and also the Orion space probe.The Artemis II examination flight will be NASA's very first mission along with crew under the Artemis project, sending out NASA rocketeers Winner Glover, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman, in addition to CSA (Canadian Area Company) rocketeer Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day experience around the Moon and also back.Follow the following intervene this trip on NASA's Artemis blog.Text debt: Jason Costa.Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.