
Technicians with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems prepare to offload the launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and move it to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 30, 2020, for processing. Carried by NASA’s Pegasus barge, the LVSA arrived at Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39 turn basin wharf after departing from the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The LVSA will connect the SLS core stage to the rocket’s upper stage and will remain in the VAB until it’s time for stacking on the mobile launcher ahead of the Artemis I launch. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will test SLS and the Orion spacecraft as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon.
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KSC-20200730-PH-TEY01_0003
Date Created
July 30, 2020
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TOSC/Tracy Yates
Location
Turn Basin, LC 39 Area
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