This resource reel shows major milestones for NASA’s mega Moon rocket, the SLS (Space Launch System) from summer 2024 through late 2024. Teams across the country are manufacturing, building, and preparing hardware for SLS rockets that will power the first crewed Artemis missions with Artemis II and III and the first flights of SLS in its evolved Block 1B configuration, beginning with Artemis IV and V. Video highlights include the SLS core stage for Artemis II rollout at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and shipment on Pegasus barge; arrival at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and transport to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy, where it was lifted into High Bay 2 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building; and the launch vehicle stage adapter for Artemis II moved from Building 4708 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to the Pegasus barge. Other video highlights include Artemis II solid rocket booster stacking at Kennedy; Artemis III and Artemis IV hardware testing; RS-25 certification engine test series for future Artemis missions and an expanded view of the SLS Block 1B. NASA is working to land the first woman, first person of color, and its first international partner astronaut on the Moon under Artemis. SLS is part of NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration, along with the Orion spacecraft, supporting ground systems, advanced spacesuits and rovers, the Gateway in orbit around the Moon, and commercial human landing systems. SLS is the only rocket that can send Orion, astronauts, and supplies to the Moon in a single launch.
