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NASA Is Officially Assembling the SLS in Florida – Futurism
“Stacking the first piece of the SLS rocket on the mobile launcher marks a major milestone for the Artemis Program.”
Stacking the SLS
NASA has officially started stacking booster segments of its first heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with a planned first flight set for some time next year.
The agency has ambitious plans for the massive rocket. It wants to use it to launch the first Artemis astronauts to the Moon as soon as 2024 though, according to the agency itself, that timeline is looking dubious.
Long Time Coming
The SLS has been plagued by delays and has been under…
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