The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis I mission, fully assembled with its launch abort system, is moved into the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 19, 2021. In the VAB, Orion will join the already stacked flight hardware and be raised into position atop the Space Launch System rocket in High Bay 3.
The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis I mission, fully assembled with its launch abort system, is moved into the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 19, 2021. In the VAB, Orion will join the already stacked flight hardware and be raised into position atop the Space Launch System rocket in High Bay 3. Launching in 2021, Artemis I will be an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket as an integrated system ahead of crewed flights to the Moon. Under Artemis, NASA aims to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon and establish sustainable lunar exploration.
Photo credit: NASA/Isaac Watson