NASA Building Core Stages for Second, Third Artemis Flights

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Dec 03, 2020

Technicians are simultaneously manufacturing NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) core stages for the Artemis II and Artemis III lunar missions at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The core stage for the deep space rocket consists of two huge propellant tanks, four RS-25 engines, and miles of cabling for the avionics systems and flight computers. All the main core stage structur