Artemis II - ESM Arrival, Offload, and Transport to O&C Building

The European Service Module (ESM) for NASA’s Orion spacecraft arrived at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, and was offloaded. Making the journey from the Airbus Facility in Bremen, Germany, aboard a Russian Antonov aircraft, the ESM will be transferred to Kennedy’s Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Facility. There, teams from NASA and Lockheed Martin will integrate the service module with the crew module adapter and crew module, already housed in the facility. The powerhouse that will fuel and propel Orion in space, the ESM will be used for Artemis II, the first Artemis mission flying crew aboard Orion. Teams with the European Space Agency and Airbus built the service module.