SLS Rocket Core Stage For Artemis II Mission Arrives At NASA Facilities

The core stage of the SLS is transported to the Kennedy Space Center/DOK PHOTO: NASA

JAKARTA The core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) transported from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility arrived at the Kennedy Space Center. This rocket stage has been put into the vehicle assembly building. This part of the SLS rocket was transported along with the Pegasus barge from the Michoud Facility in New Orleans on July 16. NASA moved both of them using tugboats and tugboats by covering a distance of about 900 miles. While in the Kennedy assembly chamber, the core stage will be coupled to other components to form rocket boosters. After that, the SLS rocket stage will be paired to the top of the launcher before being linked to an adapter. "In the coming months, the team will integrate the rocket core stage on top of the launcher moving with additional Artemis II flight hardware, including twin solid rocket boosters, launch vehicle stage adapters, and Orion spacecraft," NASA said, quoted from its official website.

Once installed on the Orion spacecraft, NASA will launch a planned Artemis II mission this fall. The mission will fly four astronauts into the Moon's orbit for ten days. The four astronauts selected for the Artemis II mission are NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman, as well as Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Jeremy Hansen. After circling the Moon, the four of them will return to Earth. Artemis II is a test mission of flight to the Moon before NASA lands humans and explores the natural satellite. Through this mission, NASA will ensure that the Orion aircraft is ready to be landed on the Moon.