.Teams move NASA's SLS (Space Release Body) core stage right into the Motor vehicle Assembly Structure at the organization's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and also towing crafts relocated the Pegasus barge and also 212-foot-long center stage 900-miles to the Florida spaceport from NASA's Michoud Assembly Resource in New Orleans, where it was produced as well as constructed.In the coming months, teams will definitely combine the rocket core phase atop the mobile phone launcher with the additional Artemis II air travel equipment, including the twin sound spacecraft enhancers, launch lorry stage adapter, as well as the Orion space capsule.The Artemis II test tour are going to be actually NASA's very first goal along with crew under the Artemis initiative, sending NASA rocketeers Winner Glover, Christina Koch, and also Reid Wiseman, and also CSA (Canadian Room Organization) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day journey around the Moon and also back.Follow the next come in this journey on NASA's Artemis blog site.Text credit: Jason Costa.Image credit report: NASA/Kim Shiflett.