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A paddlewheeler makes its way up the Mississippi River as the Moon rises over New Orleans on Sunday evening, Aug. 22, 2021. The August Sturgeon Moon, which was also a rare Blue Moon, was full at 7:02 a.m. local time Sunday but the nearly full Moon still put on a show when it rose over New Orleans later that evening. New Orleans is home to the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, where the core stage of the Space Launch System that will return people to the Moon was built.
Image credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker
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NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) team fully stacked three hardware elements together May 24 to form the top of the rocket’s core stage for the Artemis II mission. NASA and core stage prime contractor Boeing connected the forward skirt with the liquid oxygen tank and intertank flight hardware inside an assembly area at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Teams had previously stacked the liquid oxygen tank and intertank on April 28. The joining of the three structures together is the first major assembly of core stage hardware for Artemis II, the first crewed Artemis mission and second flight of the SLS rocket. Next, technicians will work to complete outfitting and integrating the systems within the upper structure.
Image Credit: NASA/Eric Bordelon
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Technicians at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans moved the engine section of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the Moon, into position for the final join of the core stage Feb. 22. The engine section is the bottom-most portion of the 212-foot-tall core stage. It is the last of five major elements that is needed to connect the stage into one major structure. In addition to its miles of cabling and hundreds of sensors, the engine section is a crucial attachment point for the four RS-25 engines and two solid rocket boosters that produce a combined 8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff and flight. During launch and flight, liquid propellants from the liquid hydrogen tank and liquid oxygen tanks are delivered through the engine section to the four RS-25 engines. The engine section also includes the avionics that help steer the engines after liftoff.
Next, teams will join the engine section to the core stage for the second SLS rocket. After the join is complete, teams will begin to add each of the four RS-25 engines one by one to complete the stage. The completely assembled stage with its four RS-25 engines will be shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida later this year. The SLS rocket is the only rocket capable of carrying astronauts in Orion around the Moon in a single mission.
Image credit: NASA/Eric Bordelon
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Taken by the #NASAMichoud Assembly Facility photography team, this photo shows the Flower Moon and lunar eclipse over the city of New Orleans in the early morning hours on May 26.
Credit: NASA/Michoud
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Congratulations to the winners of NASA's seventh annual "Photographer of the Year" awards. Michael DeMocker won first place in the category of Places for this stunning image of a Supermoon as it rose over Huntsville, Alabama, home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, on Aug. 19, 2024. DeMocker works at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
The full Moon was both a Supermoon and a Blue Moon. Supermoons are the biggest and brightest full Moons of the year because the Moon is within 90% of its closest point to Earth. While not blue in color, the third full Moon in a season with four full Moons is called a “Blue Moon.”
Credits: NASA/Michael DeMocker
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The Oort Cloud comet, called C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, passes over Southeast Louisiana near New Orleans, home of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. The comet is making its first appearance in documented human history; it was last seen in the night sky 80,000 years ago. The Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet made its first close pass by Earth in mid-October and will remain visible to viewers in the Northern Hemisphere just between the star Arcturus and planet Venus through early November.
Credit: NASA/Eric Bordelon
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As we approach Artemis II, work continues for future missions as well. Here, a technician is seen in front of the liquid oxygen tank for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket core stage for the Artemis III mission as it was lifted into a production cell last month.
It was then carried to another area of the factory where it was set atop the previously loaded inter tank.
Image Credit: NASA/Steven B. Seipel
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We're working late, cause there's a super blue Moon 😍
#NASAMichoud photographer Michael DeMocker captured this stunning image of the super blue Moon rising over Huntsville, Alabama, home to #NASAMarshall and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, on Aug. 19.
Visible through Wednesday, Aug. 21, the full Moon is both a supermoon and a Blue Moon. As the Moon reaches its closest approach to Earth, the Moon looks larger in the night sky with supermoons becoming the biggest and brightest full Moons of the year. While not blue in color, the third full Moon in a season with four full Moons is called a “Blue Moon.”
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Congratulations to the winners of NASA's seventh annual "Photographer of the Year" awards. Eric Bordelon and Michael DeMocker won second place in the category of Documentation for this beautiful image of a SLS (Space Launch System) rocket core stage at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
This photo shows NASA and Boeing, the SLS core stage lead contractor, preparing the SLS rocket core stage for shipment at Michoud. On July 6, 2024, NASA and Boeing moved the Artemis II rocket stage to Building 110. The core stage of SLS is the largest NASA has ever built by length and volume, and it was manufactured at Michoud using state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment. Designed and managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, SLS is part of NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration. Through Artemis, NASA will send astronauts to explore the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and build the foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars.
Credits: NASA/Eric Bordelon & Michael DeMocker
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A critical component needed for future testing in support of NASA’s Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond recently arrived at the agency’s Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi.
The interstage simulator special test equipment arrived at Stennis on Sept. 21 via barge from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, where it was fabricated. The simulator, 31 feet in diameter and 33 feet tall, will be used during Green Run testing of the new Exploration Upper Stage (EUS). EUS will fly on future Space Launch System (SLS) missions as NASA continues its mission to explore the universe for the benefit of all.
Here, the interstage simulator component to be used during Exploration Upper Stage testing for the Space Launch System rocket arrives at the B-2 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center on Sept. 21, 2022.
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This image shows team members moving the first core stage that will help launch the first crewed flight of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the agency’s Artemis II mission. The move marked the first time a fully assembled Moon rocket stage for a crewed mission has rolled out from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans since the Apollo Program,
The core stage was moved onto the agency’s Pegasus barge, where it will be ferried to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The core stage for the SLS mega rocket is the largest stage NASA has ever produced. At 212 feet tall, the stage consists of five major elements, including two huge propellant tanks that collectively hold more than 733,000 gallons of super chilled liquid propellant to feed four RS-25 engines at its base. During launch and flight, the stage will operate for just over eight minutes, producing more than 2 million pounds of thrust to help send a crew of four astronauts inside NASA’s Orion spacecraft onward to the Moon.
NASA is working to land the first woman, first person of color, and its first international partner astronaut on the Moon under Artemis. SLS is part of NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration, along with the Orion spacecraft and Gateway in orbit around the Moon and commercial human landing systems, next-generation space, next-generational spacesuits, and rovers on the lunar surface. SLS is the only rocket that can send Orion, astronauts, and supplies to the Moon in a single launch.
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A Super Blue Moon rises above the Mississippi River and the Crescent City Connection Bridge in New Orleans, Aug. 30. The full moon is “super” because it’s slightly closer to Earth and “blue” because it’s the second full moon in a month. About 25% of all full moons are supermoons, but only 3% of full moons are blue moons. The next super blue moons will occur in a pair in January and March 2037. New Orleans is home to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, where stages for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and structures for Orion spacecraft are produced for the Artemis missions.
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In this aerial view, teams with Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) transport the agency’s powerful SLS (Space Launch System) core stage to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, after it completed the journey from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans aboard the Pegasus barge. In the coming months, SLS will be prepared for integration atop the mobile launcher ahead of the Artemis II launch.
Credit: NASA/Jamie Peer and Michael Downs
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Skywatchers, this is your last chance to see a Supermoon this year!
The next full Moon, also known as the Beaver Moon, will occur on Nov. 15, starting at 4:29 p.m. EST. The term “supermoon” was coined in 1979 and occurs when a full Moon coincides with its closest approach to Earth - making it appear bigger and brighter than usual.
Image Credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker
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The Next Full Moon is a Supermoon, also known as the Hunter's Moon, the Travel Moon, the Dying Grass Moon, or even the Sanguine or Blood Moon. This next full Moon will be Thursday morning, Oct. 17, 2024, at 7:26 a.m. EDT. This will be late Wednesday night for the International Date Line West time zone and early Friday morning from New Zealand Time eastwards to the International Date Line. The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Tuesday evening through Friday morning. This will be the third of four consecutive supermoons (and the brightest by a tiny margin).
This image shows the previous supermoon of the year, taken September 16, 2024.
Image Credit: NASA/Sam Lott
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Work has begun on the qualification article panels that will make up the SLS payload adapter, which is set to debut with Artemis IV.
Teams build each panel layer by layer and use a combination of manual and automated processes.
Comprised of two metal rings and eight composite panels, the adapter will be part of the SLS Block 1B configuration and housed inside the universal stage adapter atop the rocket's more powerful in-space stage, called the exploration upper stage.
Credits: NASA
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Team members with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program safely offloaded and transferred the 212-foot-tall Space Launch System (SLS) core stage from the agency’s Pegasus barge, which arrived at Kennedy Space Center's Complex 39 turn basin wharf on July 23 from Marshall Space Flight Center’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. It was then rolled to the Vehicle Assembly Building transfer aisle where teams will process it until it is ready for rocket stacking operations.
SLS will be prepared for integration atop the mobile launcher ahead of the Artemis II launch, which will send NASA's first crewed mission to the Moon with the Artemis campaign.
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NASA is preparing the Space Launch System rocket core stage that will help power the first crewed mission of NASA’s Artemis campaign for shipment. On July 6, NASA and Boeing, the core stage lead contractor, moved the Artemis II rocket stage to another part of the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The move comes as teams prepare to roll the massive rocket stage to the agency’s Pegasus barge for delivery to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in mid-July.
Prior to the move, technicians began removing external access stands, or scaffolding, surrounding the rocket stage in early June. NASA and Boeing teams used the scaffolding surrounding the core stage to assess the interior elements, including its complex avionics and propulsion systems. The 212-foot core stage has two huge propellant tanks, avionics and flight computer systems, and four RS-25 engines, which together enable the stage to operate during launch and flight.
Credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker
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Another element of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for Artemis II is poised for flight. Technicians joined the core stage March 23 with the stacked solid rocket boosters for the mission at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program and primary contractor Amentum used one of the five overhead cranes inside the spaceport’s Vehicle Assembly Building to lift the rocket stage from the facility’s transfer aisle to High Bay 3, where it was secured between the booster segments atop the launch tower.
In thi image, Artemis II Core Stage is lifted into High Bay 3 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, March 23, 2025.
Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux
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We're serving up some rocket hardware for Thanksgiving!
Earlier this month, the liquid oxygen tank for the third SLS (Space Launch System) core stage was lifted into a production cell at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility. Move crews then set it atop the previously loaded intertank.
Once the liquid oxygen tank is securely joined with the intertank, our crews will add the forward skirt to complete the core stage’s forward join. Another step toward launching NASA’s Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond.
Wishing everyone a safe and inspiring Thanksgiving from all of us here at Michoud and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center!
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Watch technicians at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans move the engine section of NASA's #SpaceLaunchSystem rocket for #Artemis IV after welding was completed. This hardware is the first large piece manufactured for the Artemis IV mission and makes up the lowest portion of the 212-foot-tall core stage. Currently, the team is in the process of outfitting engine sections for the Artemis II and Artemis III missions.
Image credit: NASA/Jared Lyons
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Since the mobile launcher returned in October from Launch Pad 39B to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, work has been underway for upcoming stacking operations of NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket.
To prepare for launch, the mobile launcher is undergoing optical scans, system checkouts, and umbilical refurbishment, including installation of the aft skirt electrical umbilicals.
The booster segments soon will move from the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility to the VAB via a transporter. The aft assemblies, or bottom portions of the five segment boosters, will be situated in the facility's transfer aisle then lifted atop the mobile launcher in High Bay 3.
The examinations and preparations of the mobile launcher and rocket elements lay the groundwork for Artemis II crewed test flight around the Moon.
In this image, engineers and technicians with the Exploration Ground Systems Program prepare to transfer one of the aft assemblies of the SLS (Space Launch System) solid rocket boosters for the Artemis II mission with an overhead crane inside the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024.
Credits: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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On Aug. 21, the first piece of hardware manufactured here at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center for a crewed NASA Artemis mission began its journey! The cone-shaped launch vehicle stage adapter was carefully transferred to the agency's Pegasus barge and is now on its way to Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Check out this new timelapse video as teams skillfully guide the 27.5 foot tall adapter for #Artemis II at Marshall.
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As crews at #NASAMichoud near the end of production on the core stage for Artemis I, teams are working on flight hardware for Artemis II. The liquid hydrogen tank has been moved for proof testing at the factory.
Image credit: NASA/Jude Guidry
NASA rolled out a key piece of space flight hardware for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the first crewed mission of NASA’s Artemis campaign from Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Wednesday, Aug. 21 for shipment to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The cone-shaped launch vehicle stage adapter connects the rocket’s core stage to the upper stage and helps protect the upper stage’s engine that will help propel the Artemis II test flight around the Moon, slated for 2025.
In this image, crews moved the cone-shaped launch vehicle stage adapter out of NASA Marshall’s Building 4708 to the agency’s Pegasus barge on August 21. The barge will ferry the adapter first to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, where it will pick up additional SLS hardware for future Artemis missions, and then travel to NASA Kennedy. In Florida, teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems will prepare the adapter for stacking and launch.
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This week at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the launch vehicle stage adapter for NASA Artemis III was moved.
This adapter plays a key role during launch and ascent by providing structural support to the stages. It also protects sensitive avionics and electrical systems within the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) from the extreme vibrations and acoustic conditions experienced during launch.
With this SLS hardware now complete, it's ready to be stored until it's transported to NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
Credits: NASA/Sam Lott
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Happy last week of 2017! To celebrate, we're highlighting our favorite images of the year! Up first, this image from April 2017. An engine section structural qualification test article for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, is loaded onto the barge Pegasus at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The test article then made its way from Michoud to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for structural loads testing. For the test series, hydraulic cylinders were electronically controlled to push, pull, twist and bend the test article with millions of pounds of force to ensure the hardware can withstand the extreme forces of launch and ascent. The engine section, located at the bottom of the rocket's core stage, will house the four RS-25 engines and be an attachment point for the two solid rocket boosters.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC/Michoud/Jude Guidry
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All the major structures that will form the core stage for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the agency’s Artemis III mission are structurally complete. Technicians finished welding the 51-foot liquid oxygen tank structure, left, inside the Vertical Assembly Building at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans Jan. 8. The liquid hydrogen tank, right, completed internal cleaning Nov. 14.
Image credits: NASA/Michael DeMocker
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NASA is making strides with the Artemis campaign as key components for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket continue to make their way to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Teams with NASA and Boeing loaded the core stage boat-tail for Artemis III and the core stage engine section for Artemis IV onto the agency’s Pegasus barge at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Aug. 28.
The core stage engine section of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for Artemis IV is loaded onto the agency’s Pegasus barge at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Aug. 28. The core stage hardware will be moved NASA’s to Kennedy’s Space Systems Processing Facility for outfitting.
Credit: NASA/Justin Robert
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From across the Atlantic Ocean and through the Gulf of Mexico, two ships converged, delivering key spacecraft and rocket components of NASA’s Artemis campaign to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
On Sept. 3, ESA (European Space Agency) marked a milestone in the Artemis III mission as its European-built service module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft completed a transatlantic journey from Bremen, Germany, to Port Canaveral, Florida, where technicians moved it to nearby NASA Kennedy. Transported aboard the Canopée cargo ship, the European Service Module—assembled by Airbus with components from 10 European countries and the U.S.—provides propulsion, thermal control, electrical power, and water and oxygen for its crews.
NASA’s Pegasus barge, the agency’s waterway workhorse for transporting large hardware by sea, ferried multi-mission hardware for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, the Artemis II launch vehicle stage adapter, the “boat-tail” of the core stage for Artemis III, the core stage engine section for Artemis IV, along with ground support equipment needed to move and assemble the large components. The barge pulled into NASA Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39B Turn Basin Thursday.
NASA’s Pegasus barge, carrying several pieces of hardware for Artemis II, III, and IV arrives at NASA Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39 turn basin wharf on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024.
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✨Bon Voyage!
Watch as the SLS (Space Launch System) core stage for #Artemis II makes its way out of the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility toward the agency's Pegasus barge, taking us one step closer to returning humans to the Moon.
The barge will transport the massive stage from #NASAMichoud to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where stacking will take place in the upcoming months.
NASA rolled out the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s core stage for the Artemis II test flight from its manufacturing facility in New Orleans on Tuesday for shipment to the agency’s spaceport in Florida. The rollout is key progress on the path to NASA’s first crewed mission to the Moon under the Artemis campaign.
Using highly specialized transporters, engineers maneuvered the giant core stage from inside NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to the agency’s Pegasus barge. The barge will ferry the stage more than 900 miles to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where engineers will prepare it in the Vehicle Assembly Building for attachment to other rocket and Orion spacecraft elements.
In this image, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen watch move teams on July 16 transport the core stage of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for delivery to the Space Coast. The core stage will help power their Artemis II mission to the Moon.
Credit: NASA/Sam Lott
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🎵 Rocket around the Moon Tree
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NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility manufactured and assembled NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) core stage, as well as NASA’s Orion spacecraft pressure vessel and launch abort system for the #Artemis I mission. Now, a piece of history from the mission is back at #NASAMichoud!
This Moon Tree seedling that flew around the Moon during the mission will now call America's Rocket Factory home.
Credit: NASA/Eric Bordelon
Video Description: The video starts with a blurred view and slowly comes into focus. On the right side of the screen is NASA Michoud's Artemis Moon Tree seedling adorned with multicolor holiday lights. In the background, Michoud's Vertical Assembly Building is visible with a large NASA Meatball emblem on the side.
This engine section structural test article for NASA's Space Launch System is being prepared to be shipped on the barge Pegasus from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility to the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Once it arrives at the Marshall Center, it will undergo structural testing.
The engine section will house four RS-25 engines and power the core stage of the Space Launch System, the world’s most powerful rocket.
Image credit: NASA/MAF
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NASA’s Pegasus barge, carrying the agency’s massive SLS (Space Launch System) core stage, arrives at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Complex 39 turn basin wharf in Florida on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, after journeying from the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The core stage is the next piece of Artemis hardware to arrive at the spaceport and will be offloaded and moved to NASA Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building, where it will be prepared for integration ahead of the Artemis II launch.
Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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Engineers and technicians inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida stacked the first segment of the Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket boosters onto mobile launcher 1.
Comprising 10 segments total – five segments for each booster – the SLS solid rocket boosters arrived via train to NASA Kennedy in September 2023 from Northrop Grumman’s manufacturing facility in Utah. The booster segments underwent processing in the spaceport’s Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility before being transferred to the NASA’s iconic VAB for stacking operations.
Credits: NASA/Glenn Benson
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"This has been another tremendous year for our NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The dedication and resilience of Michoud’s workforce have been on full display as we continue assembling the hardware that will propel #Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. Thank you for your remarkable efforts – here’s to a successful 2025!"
- Joseph Pelfrey, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Director
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A test article of the SLS engine section is aboard the barge Pegasus and will make its way to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center for structural loads testing. It will be pushed, pulled, twisted and bent with millions of pounds of force to ensure the structure can withstand the incredible stresses of launch.
Image credit: NASA/Michoud/Steven Seipel
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The engine section structural test article for NASA's Space Launch System rocket arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on May 15 on the barge Pegasus. The trip began on April 28 when Pegasus left NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on its 1,240-mile voyage. Alabama.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC/MAF/Steven Seipel
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NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will launch crew and massive amounts of cargo to deep space including missions to Mars. Before launching the world's most powerful rocket the first time, each part of SLS must undergo numerous tests to ensure the rocket and its components have been designed, manufactured and integrated to withstand the stresses of launch.
The heavy-lift rocket for the first integrated flight with the agency's Orion spacecraft is a foundation for all future SLS configurations. NASA recently completed a major test series on hardware for the upper part of the rocket. A test article of the rocket's core stage engine section is on its way by barge to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for a qualification test series. The engine section is the first of four core stage test articles manufactured and is designed to the specifications needed for launch.
This image made earlier of another liquid oxygen tank being manufactured for weld confidence testing shows how domes are added to make tanks in the Vertical Assembly Center at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. A dome is positioned in a feeder, left, and is added to the barrel at the bottom of the assembly Center, right. Two domes, two rings, and two barrels are joined to make a liquid oxygen fuel tank for the Space Launch System.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC/MAF/Steven Seipel
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Teams at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have structurally joined all four RS-25 engines onto the core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket that will send four astronauts on their journey around the Moon during #Artemis II.
Technicians with NASA, Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies company and the RS-25 engines lead contractor, along with Boeing, the core stage lead contractor, now will focus efforts on the complex task of fully securing the engines to the stage and integrating the propulsion and electrical systems within the structure.
Image description: The yellow core stage is seen in a horizontal position in the final assembly area at Michoud. The engines are arranged at the bottom of the rocket stage in a square pattern, like legs on a table. Photo Credit: NASA/Eric Bordelon
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Let's give a round of applause to our #NASAMichoud and NASA_SLS videographers for winning four NASA "Videographer of the Year" awards!👏
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Several big pieces of hardware for the SLS rocket have rolled out recently, and this progress wouldn't be possible without the dedication of our workforce.
As we celebrate #LaborDay today, we thank all of the dedicated team members who work hard toward the future of deep space exploration.
Have a safe and happy holiday!
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Technicians at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center have been busy welding and working on the liquid oxygen forward dome for the Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) Structural Test Article (STA) in preparation for its next move.
Both the forward and aft domes will soon be shipped to NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans where they will be welded to the EUS liquid oxygen barrel section.
Learn more about the EUS designed to power NASA Artemis missions beginning with Artemis IV!
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An engine section structural qualification test article for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, is loaded onto the barge Pegasus at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The test article now will make its way from Michoud to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for structural loads testing. For the test series, hydraulic cylinders will be electronically controlled to push, pull, twist and bend the test article with millions of pounds of force to ensure the hardware can withstand the extreme forces of launch and ascent. The engine section, located at the bottom of the rocket's core stage, will house the four RS-25 engines and be an attachment point for the two solid rocket boosters. The engine section test article is the first of four core stage test articles manufactured at Michoud and is designed to the same specifications as the engine section that will fly on the first SLS mission with the Orion spacecraft.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC/Michoud
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#ICYMI: The SLS (Space Launch System) core stage for #Artemis II was recently on the move at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in preparation for its delivery to NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
Teams utilize scaffolding surrounding the core stage to assess the interior elements, including its complex avionics and propulsion systems. Watch as technicians remove the external access stands, or scaffolding, before this recent move.
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An engine section structural qualification test article for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, is loaded onto the barge Pegasus at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The test article now will make its way from Michoud to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for structural loads testing. For the test series, hydraulic cylinders will be electronically controlled to push, pull, twist and bend the test article with millions of pounds of force to ensure the hardware can withstand the extreme forces of launch and ascent. The engine section, located at the bottom of the rocket's core stage, will house the four RS-25 engines and be an attachment point for the two solid rocket boosters. The engine section test article is the first of four core stage test articles manufactured at Michoud and is designed to the same specifications as the engine section that will fly on the first SLS mission with the Orion spacecraft.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC/Michoud
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For over 300 years, New Orleans has been a cultural hub built on the traditions of its people-which includes a variety of art, music, food, and entertainment. Embedded in its history is NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, where the legacy of human spaceflight continues. Since 1961, Michoud has played a key role in manufacturing rockets and hardware for every major NASA human spaceflight program, from Apollo to the Space Shuttle, and now the Artemis mission. This video highlights their story as America's Rocket Factory and showcases their continued support for space exploration.
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Artemis II NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch of NASA, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen view the core stage for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Nov. 16. The three astronauts, along with NASA’s Victor Glover, will launch atop the rocket stage to venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed flight for Artemis.
The core stage, towering 212 feet, is the backbone of the SLS mega rocket and serves to support the weight of the payload, upper stage, and the crew inside the Orion Spacecraft. It also includes two massive propellant tanks that collectively hold 733,000 gallons of propellant to help power the stage's four RS-25 engines.
The astronauts’ visit to Michoud coincided with the first anniversary of the launch of Artemis I. The uncrewed flight test of SLS and Orion was the first in a series of increasingly complex missions for Artemis as the agency works to return humans to the lunar surface and develop a long-term presence there for discovery and exploration.
Image credits: NASA/Michael DeMocker
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At 212 feet tall, the core stage for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) is the backbone and powerhouse of the mega rocket that will power NASA’s Artemis mission to the Moon. Its two massive propellant tanks provide more than 733,000 gallons of propellant to the four RS-25 engines at the base of the rocket stage, producing more than 2 million pounds of thrust for the first eight minutes of flight. NASA and Boeing, the lead SLS core stage contractor, manufacture the core stage which is built at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Watch this video to learn more about the capability of the SLS rocket and its dynamic core stage.
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