Artemis III crew module

The pressure vessel for the Artemis III mission arrives at Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 19, 2021. The pieces for the pressure vessel were machined at AMRO in California and Ingersoll Machine Tools Inc. in Illinois and welded at the Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana.

Photo: NASA/Radislav Sinyak

The crew module adapter, which connects Orion's crew module with the European Service module is lifted in preparation for mate with the Artemis II service module on Oct. 19, 2021, which recently arrived from Airbus in Bremen.