NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist and Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, practice walking out of an emergency egress basket at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. The baskets, similar to gondolas on ski lifts, are used in the case of an unlikely emergency during launch countdown to enable astronauts and other pad personnel to quickly escape from the mobile launcher to the base of the pad where waiting emergency transport vehicles will drive them away. During a two-day operation, the Artemis II team practiced night-run demonstrations of different launch day scenarios for the Artemis II test flight.
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August 12, 2025
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NASA/Kim Shiflett
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VAB, PAD 39B
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