Space

Artemis II Center Phase Arrives at Kennedy

.Groups move NASA's SLS (Area Release System) core phase into the Automobile Installation Property at the agency's Kennedy Room Facility in Fla on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and also lugging crafts relocated the Pegasus burst and 212-foot-long primary phase 900-miles to the Fla spaceport coming from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where it was created and put together.In the coming months, groups will certainly incorporate the rocket primary phase atop the mobile phone launcher along with the extra Artemis II trip components, consisting of the identical twin solid spacecraft boosters, launch motor vehicle stage adapter, and the Orion space probe.The Artemis II exam flight will definitely be actually NASA's first purpose with staff under the Artemis project, delivering NASA astronauts Winner Glover, Christina Koch, and also Reid Wiseman, as well as CSA (Canadian Space Firm) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day trip around the Moon and also back.Follow the upcoming intervene this journey on NASA's Artemis blog.Text credit: Jason Costa.Image credit history: NASA/Kim Shiflett.