NASA Moves First Artemis SLS Rocket Stage from NASA’s Factory to Barge

These images show the first core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket inside NASA’s Pegasus barge on Jan. 8 ahead of its forthcoming journey to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Teams rolled out, or moved, the completed core stage from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to the barge in preparation for the SLS rocket’s core stage Green Run test series at Stennis. Pegasus, which was modified to ferry SLS rocket hardware, will transport the core stage more than 40 miles from Michoud to Stennis for the comprehensive core stage Green Run test series. Green Run, named for its testing of new, or green, hardware progressively is the final test campaign ahead of the first Artemis launch. Assembly and integration of the core stage and its four RS-25 engines has been a collaborative, multistep process for NASA and its partners Boeing, the core stage lead contractor, and Aerojet Rocketdyne, the RS-25 engines lead contractor. Together with four RS-25 engines, the rocket’s massive 212-foot-tall core stage — the largest stage NASA has ever built — and its twin solid rocket boosters will produce 8.8 million pounds of thrust to send NASA’s Orion spacec

Date

2020-01-08

Photographer / author

Eric Bordelon

Collection

MAF

Archive

NASA Image and Video Library

Type

photograph

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