Emergency Egress Basket Installation

Teams with Exploration Ground Systems Program are starting to install the emergency egress baskets on the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B in preparation for future crewed Artemis missions starting with Artemis II.

Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program, in preparation for the agency’s Artemis II crewed mission to the Moon, begin installation of four emergency egress baskets at Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. The baskets, similar to gondolas on ski lifts, are used in the case of a pad abort emergency to enable astronauts and other pad personnel a way to quickly escape away from the mobile launcher to the base of the pad and where waiting emergency transport vehicles will then drive them away.

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
Album Artemis_II