Saturday, January 4, 2020

NASA Prepares Artemis I SLS Core Stage for Shipment on Pegasus Barge


Teams at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans moved the core stage, complete with all four RS-25 engines, for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to Building 110 for final shipping preparations on Jan. 1, 2020. It will be shipped via the agency’s Pegasus barge from Michoud to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.  Credit: NASA/Jude Guidry
2 January  2020

Ken Kremer - - For Spaceupclose.com and RocketSTEM

MICHOUD ASSEMBLY FACILITY, LA/CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  The NASA, Boeing  and Aerojet Rocketdyne team is now in the final stages of preparing the first completed Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage for the Artemis 1 Moon mission for shipment via the Pegasus barge from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. 

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