Commercial Crew-13 Astronauts in VAB
NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) core stage for the Artemis III mission undergoes prelaunch processing inside High Bay 2 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. This marks the first time core stage assembly operations for Artemis missions have been conducted at the spaceport. Artemis III will launch astronauts to low Earth orbit aboard the Orion spacecraft on top of SLS to test rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and commercial spacecraft needed to land Artemis IV astronauts on the Moon in 2028.
- Date
- 2026-05-12
- Photographer / author
- NASA/Kim Shiflett
- Collection
- KSC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Commercial Crew-13 Astronauts in VAB" (2026-05-12). NASA/KSC/NASA/Kim Shiflett. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-20260512-PH-KLS02_0007Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 13069.
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