Space

Artemis II Center Phase Arrives at Kennedy

.Staffs move NASA's SLS (Space Launch Body) primary phase right into the Vehicle Setting Up Structure at the organization's Kennedy Space Facility in Fla on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and dragging boats relocated the Pegasus burst and 212-foot-long center phase 900-miles to the Florida spaceport from NASA's Michoud Setting up Center in New Orleans, where it was produced and also assembled.In the coming months, teams will certainly combine the spacecraft primary phase atop the mobile phone launcher with the added Artemis II flight hardware, featuring the twin solid rocket enhancers, launch lorry phase adapter, and the Orion space probe.The Artemis II examination trip are going to be actually NASA's first purpose along with team under the Artemis project, sending out NASA astronauts Winner Glover, Christina Koch, and also Reid Wiseman, and also CSA (Canadian Space Company) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day quest around the Moon and also back.Adhere to the upcoming action in this adventure on NASA's Artemis blog site.Text credit report: Jason Costa.Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.