Space

Artemis II Primary Phase Reaches Kennedy

.Teams move NASA's SLS (Space Launch Device) center stage right into the Auto Installation Structure at the company's Kennedy Area Facility in Fla on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and also lugging boats moved the Pegasus barge as well as 212-foot-long core phase 900-miles to the Fla spaceport coming from NASA's Michoud Setting up Resource in New Orleans, where it was produced and also set up.In the coming months, staffs will combine the rocket center stage atop the mobile phone launcher with the extra Artemis II tour equipment, consisting of the identical twin sound rocket enhancers, launch lorry phase adapter, and also the Orion space probe.The Artemis II exam flight will be NASA's initial mission with crew under the Artemis campaign, sending NASA rocketeers Winner Glover, Christina Koch, as well as Reid Wiseman, and also CSA (Canadian Area Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day trip around the Moon and also back.Use the upcoming action in this quest on NASA's Artemis blog.Text debt: Jason Costa.Picture credit report: NASA/Kim Shiflett.