Space

Artemis II Primary Phase Comes To Kennedy

.Staffs carry NASA's SLS (Room Introduce Body) core phase into the Motor vehicle Assembly Building at the firm's Kennedy Space Facility in Fla on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and dragging crafts moved the Pegasus burst and 212-foot-long center stage 900-miles to the Florida spaceport from NASA's Michoud Installation Location in New Orleans, where it was manufactured and also set up.In the coming months, staffs will combine the rocket primary stage atop the mobile phone launcher along with the extra Artemis II flight components, featuring the twin sound spacecraft boosters, launch motor vehicle phase adapter, as well as the Orion spacecraft.The Artemis II exam trip will definitely be NASA's first purpose with workers under the Artemis campaign, sending NASA astronauts Winner Glover, Christina Koch, and also Reid Wiseman, in addition to CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day trip around the Moon as well as back.Adhere to the next action in this quest on NASA's Artemis blog site.Text debt: Jason Costa.Picture credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.