The huge rocket is scheduled to carry people for the first time in 2024.
The Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage for NASA's Artemis 2 mission arrived at the Space Coast on July 28, 2021. It is undergoing final preparations at prime contractors Boeing and United Launch Alliance's facilities and will soon be delivered to nearby Kennedy Space Center.
The giant rockets that will carry NASA astronauts to the moon a few years from now are really starting to come together. In a brief status update posted on Tuesday , NASA officials wrote that the agency and its manufacturing partners have made"great progress" on putting together the rocket for Artemis 2, a crewed moon-orbiting mission targeted to lift off in 2024. Testing and manufacturing of SLS parts is also underway for the moon-landing Artemis 3 mission, now slated for no earlier than 2025, and its successor Artemis 4, the agency said.
"The Space Launch System team is not just building one rocket, but manufacturing several rockets for exploration missions and future SLS flights beyond the initial Artemis launch," John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said in
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