By NASA
March 21, 2022
NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, standing atop the mobile launcher, are photographed at Launch Pad 39B at the firms Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 18, 2022. The Artemis I stack was carried from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the pad– a 4.2-mile journey that took nearly 11 hours to finish– by the firms crawler-transporter 2 for a wet gown rehearsal ahead of the uncrewed launch. Artemis I will evaluate SLS and Orion as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon. Through Artemis, NASA will land the first female and the very first individual of color on the lunar surface area, leading the way for a long-lasting lunar existence and working as a stepping stone on the method to Mars.
NASAs John Giles provides us a tour of the spider and discusses the adjustments made to this “terrific piece of equipment” considering that it was very first built for the Apollo program in the 1960s. ESA is playing a key function in NASAs Artemis program, which will bring astronauts back to the Moon.