Space

Artemis II Primary Stage Arrives at Kennedy

.Staffs carry NASA's SLS (Room Introduce Unit) primary phase right into the Vehicle Setting Up Building at the company's Kennedy Area Facility in Fla on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and also dragging vessels relocated the Pegasus burst and also 212-foot-long core stage 900-miles to the Fla spaceport from NASA's Michoud Assembly Resource in New Orleans, where it was actually manufactured and constructed.In the coming months, crews are going to combine the spacecraft primary phase atop the mobile phone launcher with the additional Artemis II tour components, consisting of the identical twin sound spacecraft boosters, launch vehicle phase adapter, and also the Orion space capsule.The Artemis II test tour will be actually NASA's 1st mission along with crew under the Artemis campaign, sending out NASA rocketeers Victor Glover, Christina Koch, as well as Reid Wiseman, in addition to CSA (Canadian Room Agency) rocketeer Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day adventure around the Moon and also back.Apply the next intervene this trip on NASA's Artemis blog post.Text credit score: Jason Costa.Picture credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.