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Teams at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility have begun assembling the core stage for the Artemis 2 Space Launch System rocket.

Printer Version Boeing’s 1st Core Stage for NASA’s Space Launch System Arrives at Kennedy Space Center A Boeing-built rocket core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System was unloaded from a barge at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center and moved to the Vehicle Assembly Building. The 212-foot (65-meter) core stage will be stacked with a Boeing/United Launch Alliance Interim Cryogenic Upper Stage, two solid rocket boosters, a Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter and the Orion spacecraft. Teams will prepare the SLS to launch Orion on ...

If you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming a Spaceflight Now Member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. The core stage of NASA’s first Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday evening aboard a specially-built barge, completing a voyage by sea from a test site in Mississippi to begin final preparations for the first flight of NASA’s Artemis Moon program. The 310-foot-long (94.4-meter) transport vessel completed a near...

The biggest piece to a years-in-the-making rocket that will become the most powerful to ever launch off the planet arrives to Kennedy Space Center this week when the core stage for the Artemis I mission to the moon makes its way to Florida.

Date Time Share Boeing’s 1st Core Stage for NASA’s Space Launch System is Ready for Journey to Launch Site Boeing [NYSE: BA] begins delivery of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket cryogenic core stage to NASA today in preparation for launch of the Artemis I mission, the first moon mission in nearly 50 years. Boeing refurbished the stage after it successfully completed hot fire testing last month at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, closing out the Green Run campaign on the B-2 test stand. The flight hardware will now go to Kennedy Space Center in Florida for integration with the Orion cre...