Space

Artemis II Center Phase Gets To Kennedy

.Staffs transfer NASA's SLS (Area Release Unit) center phase into the Auto Assembly Building at the firm's Kennedy Room Facility in Fla on July 24, 2024. Tugboats as well as pulling boats relocated the Pegasus barge and 212-foot-long center phase 900-miles to the Florida spaceport coming from NASA's Michoud Assembly Resource in New Orleans, where it was created as well as constructed.In the coming months, crews will certainly incorporate the rocket center stage atop the mobile launcher with the added Artemis II flight equipment, featuring the twin sound spacecraft boosters, launch car stage adapter, and the Orion space probe.The Artemis II test trip will be NASA's 1st objective along with staff under the Artemis project, sending NASA astronauts Winner Glover, Christina Koch, and also Reid Wiseman, as well as CSA (Canadian Space Organization) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day trip around the Moon and also back.Follow the upcoming action in this quest on NASA's Artemis blog post.Text credit history: Jason Costa.Image credit rating: NASA/Kim Shiflett.