阿尔忒弥斯二号核心级抵达肯尼迪

Teams transport NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) core stage into the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and towing vessels moved the Pegasus barge and 212-foot-long core stage 900-miles to the Florida spaceport from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where it was manufactured and assembled.

In the coming months, teams will integrate the rocket core stage atop the mobile launcher with the additional Artemis II flight hardware, including the twin solid rocket boosters, launch vehicle stage adapter, and the Orion spacecraft.

The Artemis II test flight will be NASA’s first mission with crew under the Artemis campaign, sending NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman, as well as CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back.

Follow the next steps in this journey on NASA’s Artemis blog.

Text credit: Jason Costa

Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

2024年7月24日，团队将NASA的SLS（太空发射系统）核心级运入位于佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心的飞行器装配大楼。拖船和牵引船将飞马座驳船和212英尺长的核心级从NASA位于新奥尔良的米休德装配设施运到到900英里外的佛罗里达航天港，在那里进行制造和组装。

在接下来的几个月里，团队将把移动发射装置上的火箭核心级与其他阿尔忒弥斯二号飞行硬件进行整合，包括双固体火箭助推器、运载火箭级适配器和猎户座飞船。

阿尔忒弥斯2号的试飞将是NASA在阿尔忒弥斯计划下首次载人飞行任务，NASA将派出宇航员维克多·格洛弗、克里斯蒂娜·科赫、里德·怀斯曼以及加拿大航天局的宇航员杰里米·汉森将进行为期10天的绕月往返之旅。

请在NASA的阿尔忒弥斯任务博客上关注这次旅程的下一步计划。

文字来源：Jason Costa

图片来源：NASA/Kim Shiflett