A train transporting the 10 booster segments for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket travels across the Indian River just outside NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 15, 2020. NASA received transfer of the segments at a train yard in Titusville, Florida after departing June 5 from Northrop Grumman’s manufacturing facility in Utah. The Shuttle Wagon that once brought the space shuttle boosters onto Kennedy along the same tracks delivered the rocket motors to the center’s Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility (RPSF). Kennedy’s Exploration Ground Systems team will now prepare them for assembly and integration activities that begin with offloading the segments from the railcars in the RPSF. Teams will attach the aft segments to the aft skirts in the Rotation Building, and store the remaining segments from the railcars in a Surge, or storage, building in preparation for stacking in the Vehicle Assembly Building.
Image Credit: NASA/ Tony Gray