NASA’s Artemis III Space Launch System core stage was integrated with the twin solid rocket boosters inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Oct. 28.
Teams lowered the 212-foot rocket stage from High Bay 2 using a custom lifting beam designed to place the stage onto the mobile launcher. After testing and checkouts are complete, crews will roll the core stage and booster stack out to Launch Pad 39B for a tanking test. During the test, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuel will be loaded into the core stage, and launch teams will practice countdown procedures and timelines.
The Artemis III mission plans to launch NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio, and Andre Douglas, along with European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano, in the Orion spacecraft aboard the SLS rocket. The mission will test rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and commercial spacecraft from Blue Origin and SpaceX ahead of a future mission to land astronauts on the Moon.
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