NASA HAS completed stacking of the mega-moon rocket and spacecraft that will launch the next generation of deep space operations, including Artemis missions on and around the Moon. Engineers and technicians successfully secured the Orion spacecraft atop the fully assembled Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida just before midnight on October 21. The stack now stands 322ft tall inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA Kennedy as it enters the final phase of testing before launch. "With stacking and integration of NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft complete, we're getting closer and closer to embarking on a new era of human deep space exploration," said NASA administrator Bill Nelson. "Thanks to the team's hard work designing, manufacturing, testing and now completing assembly of NASA's new rocket and spacecraft, we're in the home stretch of preparations for the first launch on the Artemis I mission, paving the way to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond for many years to come."
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