Artemis 2

Artemis
Artemis 2
Christina H. Koch
G. Reid Wiseman
Kennedy Space Center
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Victor J. Glover
Teams lifted NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II test flight out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell and moved it to the altitude chamber to complete further testing on Nov. 6 inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Engineers returned the spacecraft to […]
Posted November 12, 2024
Artemis
Artemis 2
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Orion Program
Artemis II crew members recently traveled to Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, where they practiced opening and closing an Orion crew module side hatch model to help demonstrate its reliability and durability during their 10-day mission around the Moon.
Posted October 23, 2024
Artemis
Artemis 2
Humans in Space
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Launch System (SLS)
NASA rolled out a key piece of space flight hardware for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the first crewed mission of NASA’s Artemis campaign from Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Wednesday, Aug. 21 for shipment to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The cone-shaped launch vehicle stage adapter connects […]
Posted August 22, 2024
Exploration Ground Systems
Artemis 2
Kennedy Space Center
If there’s an emergency at the launch pad during a launch countdown, there’s a special team engineers at Kennedy Space Center teams can call on – the Pad Rescue team. Trained to quickly rescue personnel at the launch pad and take them to safety in the event of an unlikely emergency, NASA’s Pad Rescue team at […]
Posted August 16, 2024
Artemis 2
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Kennedy Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
Michoud Assembly Facility
Space Launch System (SLS)
To mark progress toward the first crewed flight test around the Moon in more than 50 years for the benefit of humanity, NASA will welcome media Wednesday, Aug. 21, to see a key adapter for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket at its Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The cone-shaped launch vehicle […]
Posted August 14, 2024
Artemis 2
Kennedy Space Center
In preparation for NASA’s Artemis II crewed mission, teams at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida practice getting out of the emergency escape, or egress, basket on Aug. 9, 2024. The baskets, similar to gondolas on ski lifts, are used in the case of a pad abort emergency to enable astronauts and other pad […]
Posted August 14, 2024
Artemis 2
Artemis
Exploration Ground Systems
Kennedy Space Center
Recently, teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) Program at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center met with engineering teams at a central Florida amusement park to share knowledge on a new braking system NASA is using for its launch pad emergency egress system for Artemis missions. “We have a new magnetic braking system for the […]
Posted August 9, 2024
Artemis 2
Exploration Ground Systems
Kennedy Space Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Since NASA began sending astronauts to space, the agency has relied on emergency systems for personnel to safely leave the launch pad and escape the hazard in the unlikely event of an emergency during the launch countdown.   During the Mercury and Gemini programs, NASA used launch escape systems on spacecraft for the crew to safely […]
Posted August 6, 2024
Artemis
Artemis 2
Kennedy Space Center
Space Launch System (SLS)
Teams transport NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) core stage into the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 24, 2024.
Posted August 2, 2024
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