MSFC_LVSAmovetoPegasus_07172020
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| Description | 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 Interi |
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| Date | 2020-07-17 |
| Source | images.nasa.gov |