MSFC_LVSAmovetoPegasus_07172020

This B-roll video shows the move team as they transport the launch vehicle stage adapter for agency’s new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the dock and load it on NASA’s Pegasus barge at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, July 17. The move starts in the area at Marshall where final assembly of the adapter took place. Then is travels on a unique vehicle called a K-mag, slowly to the Tennessee River where the team loads the launch vehicle stage adapter on NASA’s barge Pegasus. The adapter is the last piece of SLS rocket hardware built in Alabama to be delivered to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the Artemis I mission to the Moon. The launch vehicle stage adapter connects the rocket’s 212-foot-tall core stage to the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage, the part of the rocket that provides the power to send the Orion spacecraft to the Moon. The launch vehicle stage adapter was built at Marshall by Teledyne Brown Engineering in Huntsville and the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion System was built by Boeing and United Launch Alliance in nearby Decatur, Alabama. Only the SLS core stage, currently in final testing at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi remains to be shipped to Kennedy on Pegasus. NASA is working to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024. The agency’s SLS rocket offers more payload mass, volume capability and energy to speed missions through deep space and enable NASA’s Artemis lunar program. SLS, along with Orion, the human landing system, and the Gateway in orbit around the Moon are NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration