EGS Booster Segrment Training

In High Bay 4 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a team of engineers with Exploration Ground Systems and contractor Jacobs participate in Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket booster pathfinder stacking during a training exercise on Jan. 8, 2020. The booster pathfinders are inert, full-scale replicas of the actual booster hardware that will be attached to the SLS rocket for Artemis missions. The team is practicing lifting, moving and stacking maneuvers, using important ground support equipment to train employees and certify all the equipment works properly. The five-segment, 17-story-tall twin boosters will provide 3.6 million pounds of thrust each at liftoff to help launch Orion on Artemis I, its first uncrewed mission beyond the Moon.