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Core stage placed on tarmac. NASA photo
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STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. - Crews at NASA’s Stennis Space Center (SSC) worked April 19-20 to remove the first flight core stage of the agency’s Space Launch System rocket from the B-2 Test Stand in preparation for its transport to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The core stage had to be lifted from its vertical placement in the stand and lowered to a horizontal position on the B-2 Test Stand tarmac. The stage will be loaded on NASA’s Pegasus barge for transport to Kennedy, where it will be prepared for launch of the Artemis I mission. The removal followed completion of a series of eight Green Run tests over the past year, culminating in the hot fire of the stage's four RS-25 engines March 18. (Source:
NASA, 04/20/21)
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