.Staffs transport NASA's SLS (Room Release Body) center phase into the Motor vehicle Assembly Property at the company's Kennedy Space Facility in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and also dragging crafts moved the Pegasus barge and also 212-foot-long core phase 900-miles to the Florida spaceport coming from NASA's Michoud Setting up Resource in New Orleans, where it was manufactured as well as constructed.In the coming months, groups will include the rocket core stage atop the mobile phone launcher along with the extra Artemis II air travel components, consisting of the twin solid spacecraft boosters, launch auto stage adapter, as well as the Orion space capsule.The Artemis II exam tour will be NASA's very first objective with workers under the Artemis initiative, sending NASA astronauts Winner Glover, Christina Koch, and also Reid Wiseman, as well as CSA (Canadian Space Agency) rocketeer Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day journey around the Moon and also back.Use the upcoming intervene this quest on NASA's Artemis blog site.Text credit history: Jason Costa.Image credit rating: NASA/Kim Shiflett.