Image credit: NASA/Daniel Casper
Teams from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans delivered the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage engine section for Artemis III to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Saturday, Dec 10. As NASA moves forward with SLS production and assembly for future Artemis missions, technicians at the spaceport are beginning some core stage assembly and outfitting activities beginning with the Artemis III Moon rocket. In tandem, teams at Michoud will continue to manufacture the remaining four other elements of the 212-foot-tall core stage.
Teams transferred the engine section from the Pegasus barge to the center’s Space Station Processing Facility where teams will begin processing operations ahead of final integration in the Vehicle Assembly Building.
Crews at Kennedy loaded a launch vehicle stage adapter transportation stand onto the Pegasus for delivery to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to support operations for the Artemis II mission and beyond.