By NASA
April 13, 2022
( Click image for high-resolution view.) Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
In this 30-second exposure the International Space Station is seen as it passes over NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B, Friday, April 8, 2022, as the Artemis I launch team gets ready for the next attempt of the wet gown wedding rehearsal test at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Onboard the space station are NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, and Kayla Barron; ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer; and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Korsakov, Oleg Artemyev, and Denis Matveev as part of Expedition 67.
( If you cant see the streak in the sky from the ISS passing over throughout the long direct exposure, click the image for the high-resolution view.).
Standing atop the mobile launcher, NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft can be seen at Launch Pad 39B at the companys Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 18, 2022. The Artemis I stack was brought from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the pad– a 4.2-mile journey that took almost 11 hours to complete– by the agencys crawler-transporter 2 for a damp gown rehearsal ahead of the uncrewed launch. Artemis I will test SLS and Orion as an integrated system previous to crewed flights to the Moon. Through Artemis, NASA will land the first lady and the first individual of color on the lunar surface, paving the method for a long-term lunar presence and acting as a stepping stone en route to Mars. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.
NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with the Orion capsule atop, started the roll out to Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 17, 2022 and showed up on March 18. (See the image gallery and video.) There it is going through a damp dress wedding rehearsal test for NASAs Artemis I objective.
