Space

Artemis II Center Phase Gets To Kennedy

.Staffs move NASA's SLS (Area Introduce Unit) core stage into the Auto Assembly Property at the firm's Kennedy Room Center in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats as well as dragging vessels moved the Pegasus burst and also 212-foot-long core stage 900-miles to the Florida spaceport coming from NASA's Michoud Assembly Resource in New Orleans, where it was actually manufactured and set up.In the coming months, groups will definitely integrate the spacecraft core stage atop the mobile launcher along with the extra Artemis II tour equipment, consisting of the identical twin strong rocket boosters, launch car stage adapter, and also the Orion space probe.The Artemis II test tour will definitely be actually NASA's very first goal along with team under the Artemis project, sending NASA rocketeers Winner Glover, Christina Koch, as well as Reid Wiseman, in addition to CSA (Canadian Space Organization) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day quest around the Moon as well as back.Use the next action in this adventure on NASA's Artemis blog post.Text credit: Jason Costa.Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.