NASA / Stennis
According to this recent NASA blog update, the Space Launch System's (SLS) core stage booster for Artemis 1 is only days away from officially being ready for transport to the launch site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The software that the core stage booster used to run the successful Green Run hot fire test last month has now been replaced by the flight software that the rocket will utilize during its maiden launch on Artemis 1 (which is scheduled for early November, but will most likely occur around February of 2022...as NASA is expecting that 10 months will be needed to fully prepare SLS for liftoff once it is in Florida), while technicians at the Stennis Space Center continue to disconnect the core stage from the B-2 Test Stand at the Mississippi-based NASA site. If the weather cooperates and everything goes according to plan next week, the Artemis 1 booster will finally be loaded onto NASA's Pegasus barge that will take the Moon rocket on a week-long sea voyage to Cape Canaveral—where it will hopefully arrive as early as April 26. Stay tuned.
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