Space

Artemis II Primary Stage Reaches Kennedy

.Crews deliver NASA's SLS (Area Launch Unit) primary phase into the Auto Installation Building at the agency's Kennedy Space Facility in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and dragging crafts moved the Pegasus burst and 212-foot-long primary phase 900-miles to the Fla spaceport from NASA's Michoud Installation Resource in New Orleans, where it was made as well as set up.In the coming months, teams will certainly include the rocket primary stage atop the mobile launcher along with the extra Artemis II trip equipment, including the twin solid spacecraft enhancers, launch vehicle stage adapter, and the Orion space capsule.The Artemis II test trip will certainly be actually NASA's initial goal along with workers under the Artemis project, delivering NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman, and also CSA (Canadian Room Company) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day trip around the Moon and back.Abide by the following action in this trip on NASA's Artemis blog.Text credit report: Jason Costa.Picture credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.