Space

Artemis II Primary Phase Arrives at Kennedy

.Staffs transport NASA's SLS (Area Release Unit) core phase into the Automobile Assembly Building at the company's Kennedy Room Facility in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and also hauling vessels relocated the Pegasus barge and 212-foot-long primary phase 900-miles to the Florida spaceport from NASA's Michoud Installation Resource in New Orleans, where it was actually created and set up.In the coming months, groups will integrate the spacecraft core phase atop the mobile launcher along with the additional Artemis II tour components, consisting of the double solid spacecraft enhancers, launch lorry phase adapter, as well as the Orion space capsule.The Artemis II examination tour will certainly be actually NASA's very first mission with workers under the Artemis project, sending NASA rocketeers Winner Glover, Christina Koch, and also Reid Wiseman, as well as CSA (Canadian Area Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day quest around the Moon and also back.Adhere to the following steps in this trip on NASA's Artemis blog.Text debt: Jason Costa.Graphic credit score: NASA/Kim Shiflett.