NASA Artemis II Moon Rocket stage rollout mid-July
American space agency is set to roll-out the fully assembled core stage for its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will launch the first crewed Artemis mission out of NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in mid-July.
Washington: American space agency is set to roll-out the fully assembled core stage for its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will launch the first crewed Artemis mission out of NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in mid-July.
The 212-foot-tall stage will be loaded on the NASA's Pegasus barge for delivery to Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Artemis II Moon Rocket stage with its four RS-25 engines will provide more than 2 million pounds of thrust to send astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission.
Once at Kennedy, teams with NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Program will finish outfitting the stage and prepare it for stacking and launch. Artemis II is currently scheduled for launch in September 2025, the agency said.
Building, assembling, and transporting the core stage is a collaborative process for NASA, Boeing, the core stage lead contractor, and lead RS-25 engines contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3 Harris Technologies company.
NASA has plans to land the first woman, first person of color, and its first international partner astronaut on the Moon under the agency's Artemis campaign.
The SLS rocket is part of NASA's backbone for deep space exploration, along with the Orion spacecraft, supporting ground systems, advanced spacesuits and rovers, the Gateway in orbit around the Moon, and commercial human landing systems.
The SLS rocket is the only rocket designed to send Orion, astronauts, and supplies to the Moon in a single launch.
NASA had earlier shared the cost of its Artemis programme, including the latest plans to land the first woman and the next man on the surface of the Moon in 2024.
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