The largest rocket section for NASA's Artemis III mission arrived at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 27.
The SLS (Space Launch System) core stage traveled 900 miles on the Pegasus barge from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans where the stage is manufactured, to complete assembly of the massive rocket at NASA Kennedy.
Teams will transport the top four-fifths of the 212-foot-long core stage, the section containing the liquid hydrogen tank, liquid oxygen tank, intertank, and forward skirt, on Tuesday, April 28 to NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building to join the previously delivered boat-tail and engine section in the facility's High Bay 2 for outfitting and vertical integration to complete the full stage.
