Exploration Ground Systems

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Artemis
Artemis 2
Exploration Ground Systems
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Orion Program
Space Launch System (SLS)
Engineers, technicians, mission planners, and the four astronauts set to fly around the Moon next year on Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission, are rapidly progressing toward launch. At the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, teams are working around the clock to move into integration and final testing of all SLS (Space Launch […]
Posted May 6, 2025
Artemis 2
Exploration Ground Systems
Kennedy Space Center
Space Launch System (SLS)
NASA received the upper stage for the agency’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on Mar. 9 supplied by Boeing and United Launch Alliance (ULA). Known as the interim cryogenic propulsion stage, it arrived at the Multi Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The upper stage traveled to the […]
Posted March 10, 2025
Artemis 2
Exploration Ground Systems
Kennedy Space Center
Space Launch System (SLS)
Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program continue stacking the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s twin solid rocket booster motor segments for the agency’s Artemis II mission, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Posted January 24, 2025
Artemis
Artemis 2
Exploration Ground Systems
Kennedy Space Center
Space Launch System (SLS)
Teams with NASA are gaining momentum as work progresses toward future lunar missions for the benefit of humanity as numerous flight hardware shipments from across the world arrived at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first crewed Artemis flight test and follow-on lunar missions. The skyline at Kennedy will soon see added […]
Posted January 17, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
Artemis
Artemis 2
Commercial Crew
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Commercial Resupply
Europa
Europa Clipper
Exploration Ground Systems
GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
GOES-R
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
Jupiter Moons
Launch Services Program
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply
Nova-C (Lander)
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Space Launch System (SLS)
From sending crew members to the International Space Station to launching a spacecraft to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to determine if it could support life, 2024 was a busy record setting year for NASA and its partners at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. JANUARYFirst Lunar Lander Takes Flight The first flight of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial […]
Posted December 12, 2024
Artemis 2
Exploration Ground Systems
Kennedy Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket core stage is vertical in High Bay 2 on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The core stage arrived on July 23 to NASA Kennedy, where it remained horizontal inside the facility’s transfer aisle. With the move to […]
Posted December 11, 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
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
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