A key component of the rocket destined to carry NASA’s upcoming Artemis III mission into space began its journey to Kennedy Space Center on April 20.
This comes just 10 days after Artemis II made its historic test flight around the moon and back.
NASA astronauts and officials watched as the 212-foot-long orange cylinder, known as the core stage, crawled out of the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to be loaded on a barge bound for Florida.
Built in a collaboration between Boeing and L3Harris Technologies, it is the largest single section of what will be NASA’s third-ever Space Launch System moon rocket to fly. It represents 80 percent of the vehicle’s entire main stage, hosting liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen tanks set to unleash more than 2 million pounds of thrust….