KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – The final piece of NASA’s Artemis moon rocket, the Space Launch System, was offloaded into the historic Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building Thursday much to the excitement of the teams of people who have worked for over a decade for the moment the rocket can be assembled inside the hangar.
The 212-foot core stage of the SLS rocket traveled via NASA’s massive Pegasus barge from the Gulf Coast. It’s the last piece of hardware to complete the rocket before NASA launches it from launchpad 39B, possibly by the end of the year.
That flight, known as Artemis-1, will send NASA’s Orion spacecraft zipping around the moon and back on the first test flight without astronauts, proving NASA’s monster rocket is