The first completed core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is on the move.
The 212-foot tall core stage – the same flight hardware that will send Artemis 1 to the Moon – is being shipped via NASA’s Pegasus barge from the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St.Louis, Mississippi for testing.
The SLS core stage includes state-of-the-art avionics, propulsion systems and two colossal propellant tanks that collectively hold 733,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to power its four RS-25 engines.
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