Space

Artemis II Core Phase Gets To Kennedy

.Staffs transport NASA's SLS (Space Launch Body) core phase into the Car Assembly Structure at the firm's Kennedy Room Center in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and dragging crafts relocated the Pegasus barge as well as 212-foot-long primary stage 900-miles to the Florida spaceport from NASA's Michoud Installation Location in New Orleans, where it was actually produced as well as assembled.In the coming months, crews will include the spacecraft center phase atop the mobile launcher along with the additional Artemis II tour hardware, featuring the double sound spacecraft enhancers, launch motor vehicle phase adapter, and also the Orion spacecraft.The Artemis II exam flight will be NASA's initial goal along with team under the Artemis campaign, sending NASA astronauts Winner Glover, Christina Koch, as well as Reid Wiseman, and also CSA (Canadian Area Company) rocketeer Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day journey around the Moon and also back.Follow the next intervene this trip on NASA's Artemis blog.Text credit: Jason Costa.Graphic credit rating: NASA/Kim Shiflett.