NASA Artemis II Moon Crew Vehicle: European Service Module Integration

NASA Artemis II Moon Crew Vehicle: European Service Module Integration

The Artemis II mission will bring astronauts around the Moon and back for the first time in over 50 years. Engineers connected the Orion crew and European service modules for the Artemis II mission on Oct. 19, 2023, inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. With the crew and service modules integrated, the team will power up the combined crew and service module for the first time. After power on tests are complete, Orion will begin altitude chamber testing, which will put the spacecraft through conditions as close as possible to the environment it will experience in the vacuum of deep space. 

The crew and service modules are the two major components of Orion that will fly NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a mission around the Moon and bring them home safely.

Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux/Amanda Stevenson

Image Date: Oct. 19, 2023

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