Space

Artemis II Primary Phase Arrives at Kennedy

.Crews move NASA's SLS (Room Release Body) core phase in to the Motor vehicle Assembly Structure at the organization's Kennedy Room Center in Fla on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and also dragging crafts moved the Pegasus barge and also 212-foot-long primary phase 900-miles to the Florida spaceport from NASA's Michoud Installation Resource in New Orleans, where it was manufactured and also constructed.In the coming months, staffs will include the spacecraft core stage atop the mobile phone launcher with the added Artemis II trip hardware, including the identical twin sound rocket enhancers, launch lorry phase adapter, as well as the Orion space probe.The Artemis II exam air travel will be actually NASA's 1st purpose with staff under the Artemis campaign, sending NASA rocketeers Winner Glover, Christina Koch, and also Reid Wiseman, and also CSA (Canadian Room Firm) rocketeer Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day trip around the Moon and back.Follow the next intervene this experience on NASA's Artemis blogging site.Text credit scores: Jason Costa.Picture credit report: NASA/Kim Shiflett.