Orion Stage Adapter move to Redstone Airfield NASA's Super Guppy aircraft arrives to the U.S. Army’s Redstone Airfield in Huntsville, Alabama, April 2, to pick up flight hardware for NASA’s Space Launch System – its new, deep-space rocket that will enable astronauts to begin their journey to explore destinations far into the solar system. The Guppy will depart on Tuesday, April 3 to deliver the Orion stage adapter to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for flight preparations. On Exploration Mission-1, the first integrated flight of the SLS and the Orion spacecraft, the adapter will connect Orion to the rocket and carry 13 CubeSats as secondary payloads. Rumaasha Maasha, an aerospace engineer in Marshall's Spacecraft & Vehicle Systems Department, tours the cockpit of NASA's Super Guppy aircraft April 3 when it landed at Marshall to pick up the Orion stage adapter for transportation to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Maasha holds a master's degree in aerospace engineering, is a certified aviation maintenance tech and pilot and previously worked as a 747 loadmaster and airline refueler.
![Jody Singer, director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, speaks to team members March 11 following the FY2020 proposed budget rollout event with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Singer congratulated the Marshall team for all its hard work on managing and contributing to delivery of the nation's next great rocket, the Space Launch System; communications and science operations oversight for the International Space Station; astrophysics and heliophysics achievements helping to rewrite our understanding of our Sun, the solar system and the cosmos beyond; and more. "We've seen a lot of first-time-in-history [milestones]," Singer said, lauding the center's history of expertise and successful partnerships with industry, academia and government. "We are always looking for creative solutions to serve and do right for the country. We're strong, and we lead the way."](https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/MSFC-201900090/MSFC-201900090~medium.jpg)
![Jody Singer, director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, speaks to team members March 11 following the FY2020 proposed budget rollout event with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Singer congratulated the Marshall team for all its hard work on managing and contributing to delivery of the nation's next great rocket, the Space Launch System; communications and science operations oversight for the International Space Station; astrophysics and heliophysics achievements helping to rewrite our understanding of our Sun, the solar system and the cosmos beyond; and more. "We've seen a lot of first-time-in-history [milestones]," Singer said, lauding the center's history of expertise and successful partnerships with industry, academia and government. "We are always looking for creative solutions to serve and do right for the country. We're strong, and we lead the way."](https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/MSFC-201900088/MSFC-201900088~medium.jpg)
