This is the fully-assembled NASA Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion capsule, seen outside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center for the first time on March 17, 2022. Here the rocket is being transported to Launch Complex 39B, where it will undergo tests and a "wet dress rehearsal" in advance of the Artemis 1 mission.
For its inaugural launch, currently scheduled for mid-2022, the SLS will send the Orion capsule on a journey around the Moon and back.
The 4-mile journey to the pad took approximately 11-hours; The aptly named Crawler Transporter crawls along at about .8mph (1.28kph).
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This is the fully-assembled NASA Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion capsule, seen outside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center for the first time on March 17, 2022. Here the rocket is being transported to Launch Complex 39B, where it will undergo tests and a "wet dress rehearsal" in advance of the Artemis 1 mission.
For its inaugural launch, currently scheduled for mid-2022, the SLS will send the Orion capsule on a journey around the Moon and back.
The 4-mile journey to the pad took approximately 11-hours; The aptly named Crawler Transporter crawls along at about .8mph (1.28kph).
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Moon rocket, meet the International Space Station: NASA put on quite the show tonight, as the ISS flew overhead while NASA's SLS + Artemis1 was rolling to LC-39B.
This was the view from the Press Site, seen in a 12-frame composite (with the first frame used for the background).
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Moon rocket, meet Moon: NASA's Space Launch System (aka SLS) has begun the trip out of the VAB to LC-39B, under a newly risen Moon.
This is the fully-assembled NASA Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion capsule, seen outside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center for the first time on March 17, 2022. Here the rocket is being transported to Launch Complex 39B, where it will undergo tests and a "wet dress rehearsal" in advance of the Artemis 1 mission.
For its inaugural launch, currently scheduled for mid-2022, the SLS will send the Orion capsule on a journey around the Moon and back.
The 4-mile journey to the pad took approximately 11-hours; The aptly named Crawler Transporter crawls along at about .8mph (1.28kph).
Tags: Artemis Crawler Kennedy Space Center ML MichaelSeeley Mobile Launch Platform Mobile Launcher Orion RollOut SLS Space Launch System mikeseeley
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This is the fully-assembled NASA Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion capsule, seen outside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center for the first time on March 17, 2022. Here the rocket is being transported to Launch Complex 39B, where it will undergo tests and a "wet dress rehearsal" in advance of the Artemis 1 mission.
For its inaugural launch, currently scheduled for mid-2022, the SLS will send the Orion capsule on a journey around the Moon and back.
The 4-mile journey to the pad took approximately 11-hours; The aptly named Crawler Transporter crawls along at about .8mph (1.28kph).
Tags: Artemis Crawler Kennedy Space Center ML MichaelSeeley Mobile Launch Platform Mobile Launcher Orion RollOut SLS Space Launch System mikeseeley
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