ML Roll Back to Pad 39B

Xenon lights illuminate Launch Pad 39B as the mobile launcher for the Artemis I mission, atop crawler-transporter 2, nears the pad in the early morning on Oct. 20, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The nearly 400-foot-tall mobile launcher will stay at the pad for two weeks while engineers with Exploration Ground Systems and Jacobs will perform several tasks, including a timing test to validate the launch team’s countdown timeline, and a thorough, top-to-bottom wash down of the mobile launcher to remove any debris remaining from construction and installation of the umbilical arms. Artemis I will test the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System as an integrated system ahead of crewed flights to the Moon. Under the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024.

Xenon lights illuminate Launch Pad 39B as the mobile launcher for the Artemis I mission, atop crawler-transporter 2, nears the pad in the early morning on Oct. 20, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The nearly 400-foot-tall mobile launcher will stay at the pad for two weeks while engineers with Exploration Ground Systems and Jacobs will perform several tasks, including a timing test to validate the launch team’s countdown timeline, and a thorough, top-to-bottom wash down of the mobile launcher to remove any debris remaining from construction and installation of the umbilical arms. Artemis I will test the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System as an integrated system ahead of crewed flights to the Moon. Under the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024.

Photographer NASA/Ben Smegelsky
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