It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission
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Late on Saturday, technicians at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida positioned the core stage for Nasa’s second Space Launch System (SLS) rocket between its two solid-fuelled boosters.
It is the largest element of the agency’s Artemis II mission, which is scheduled for next year and will take a crew of astronauts around the far side of the moon.
Teams used heavy-duty cranes working inside the 52-story-tall Vehicle Assembly Building to first lift the butterscotch-orange core stage and then rotate it vertically.
The core stage was then lowered between the boosters that had already been stacked inside the building where Nasa assembled Saturn V rockets for Apollo lunar missions.
Teams then connected the core stage to each booster at forward and aft load-bearing attach points.
