Space

Artemis II Center Phase Reaches Kennedy

.Staffs deliver NASA's SLS (Area Introduce Body) center stage right into the Auto Installation Building at the company's Kennedy Room Facility in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and also lugging crafts relocated the Pegasus burst and also 212-foot-long primary phase 900-miles to the Florida spaceport from NASA's Michoud Installation Resource in New Orleans, where it was actually produced and also constructed.In the coming months, staffs are going to combine the spacecraft primary stage atop the mobile launcher with the additional Artemis II tour hardware, featuring the double solid spacecraft enhancers, launch lorry stage adapter, and also the Orion space capsule.The Artemis II test air travel will certainly be NASA's very first objective with crew under the Artemis project, sending NASA rocketeers Winner Glover, Christina Koch, and also Reid Wiseman, and also CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day adventure around the Moon and back.Use the following intervene this trip on NASA's Artemis blog post.Text credit scores: Jason Costa.Photo debt: NASA/Kim Shiflett.