NASA's Artemis I: Crawling Towards Launch | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's Artemis I: Crawling Towards Launch | Kennedy Space Center

One of the many milestones in the leadup to the launch of Artemis is its rollout. This is when a crawler will carry the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew spacecraft and the European Service Module from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) to Launchpad 39B. NASA's John Giles gives us a tour of the crawler and explains the adaptations made to this “wonderful piece of machinery” since it was first built for the Apollo program in the 1960s. The European Space Agency is playing a key role in NASA’s Artemis program, which will bring astronauts back to the Moon. The European Service Module—or ESM—will provide propulsion, power and thermal control for the Orion spacecraft.

Learn more Artemis I and the European Service Module: 

https://bit.ly/Artemis1ESA and https://bit.ly/3445jtk

NASA's Artemis Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS)

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

NASA's Orion Spacecraft

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/about/index.html

Video Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)

Host: Kelsea Brennan-Wessels (ESA)

Thumbnail Image Credit: NASA/Leif Heimbold

Duration: 8 minutes, 20 seconds

Release Date: March 16, 2022

#NASA #ESA #Space #Moon #Artemis #ArtemisI #Crawler #Orion #ESM #Spacecraft #SLS #Boeing #Rocket #DeepSpace #LockheedMartin #Astronauts #Mars #JourneyToMars #Science #Engineering #Technology #Exploration #SolarSystem #LaunchComplex39B #VAB #KSC #Kennedy #Florida #UnitedStates #Europe #STEM #Education #HD #Video