Tuesday, October 24, 2023

The Vehicle That Will Fly the Next Astronauts to the Moon Is Now Whole...

Inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Orion capsule is mated to its European Service Module for the Artemis 2 mission...on October 19, 2023.
NASA

Artemis II Orion Crew and Service Modules Joined Together (News Release - October 23)

On October 19, the Orion crew and service modules for the Artemis II mission were joined together inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

After successfully completing hardware installations and testing over the past several months, engineers connected the two major components of Orion that will fly NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a mission around the Moon and bring them home safely.

Now that the crew and service modules are integrated, the team will power up the combined crew and service module for the first time. After power-on tests are complete, Orion will begin altitude chamber testing, which will put the spacecraft through conditions as close as possible to the environment it will experience in the vacuum of deep space.

Source: NASA.Gov

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