NASA Artemis II Moon Rocket Booster Segment Processing | Kennedy Space Center

NASA Artemis II Moon Rocket Booster Segment Processing | Kennedy Space Center

Engineers and technicians process the right forward center segment (one of ten total) of the Space Launch System solid rocket boosters for the Artemis II mission inside the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility (RPSF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2023.

The team has been examining the 10 booster segments one-by-one then lifting them to make sure they are ready for integration and launch before moving them to the Vehicle Assembly Building for stacking atop the mobile launcher. 

Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen will blast off from Kennedy and travel around the moon for the agency’s first crewed mission under Artemis that will test all of the Orion spacecraft’s systems.

Learn more about the Artemis II Mission:

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii 

Learn more about Space Launch System (SLS): nasa.gov/sls

Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

Image Date: Nov. 28, 2023

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