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Earlier today, the Orion spacecraft that will fly on the Artemis 1 mission as early as this November was transported to the Launch Abort System Facility (LASF) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Inside the LASF, Orion will be encapsulated by its dome-shaped fairing assembly and attached to the jettison motors that will separate from Orion over two minutes after liftoff. Once this launch abort system is installed, Orion will be sent to KSC's Vehicle Assembly Building...where it will finally be mated with the Space Launch System rocket that will send the capsule on its multi-week journey to the Moon and back. This last assembly milestone is set to take place next month.
Orion started today's journey across KSC from the Multi-Payload Processing Facility—where the capsule and its European Service Module were loaded with fuel for flight.
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