Space

Artemis II Core Phase Reaches Kennedy

.Staffs deliver NASA's SLS (Room Introduce Device) center phase into the Lorry Assembly Structure at the agency's Kennedy Room Facility in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and also lugging boats moved the Pegasus burst and also 212-foot-long center phase 900-miles to the Florida spaceport from NASA's Michoud Installation Facility in New Orleans, where it was actually made and also constructed.In the coming months, teams will certainly integrate the spacecraft core stage atop the mobile launcher along with the added Artemis II trip hardware, including the double solid spacecraft boosters, launch motor vehicle stage adapter, as well as the Orion space capsule.The Artemis II examination tour will be NASA's 1st purpose along with workers under the Artemis initiative, sending NASA rocketeers Victor Glover, Christina Koch, as well as Reid Wiseman, and also CSA (Canadian Space Firm) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day adventure around the Moon and also back.Adhere to the next intervene this experience on NASA's Artemis blog.Text credit history: Jason Costa.Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.