NASA completed a milestone in preparation for Green Run testing of its Space Launch System (SLS) core stage with an August 23-24, 2019, lift and installation of the core stage pathfinder simulator onto the B-2 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center. For this test of the new core stage, the team at Stennis will lift the flight core stage for Artemis 1, the first SLS mission into the stand. SLS and the new Orion spacecraft are the foundation for NASA’s Artemis Program, which will send the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024.
The team at Stennis modified the B-2 Test Stand at for the core stage Green Run testing, which involved lifting the core stage from its horizontal position on the B-2 Test Stand tarmac with the facility boom crane line attached to the forward end and a ground crane line attached to the aft end.
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