SLS Core Stage Shipped To Stennis For Green Run

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The 212-ft.-long Space Launch System core stage heads out from an assembly hangar at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in east New Orleans on Jan. 8, heading to the waiting Pegasus barge for transport to Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
Credit: NASA
When the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump decided last year to speed up NASA’s human lunar exploration blueprint by four years, it immediately hit a formidable obstacle: The first Space Launch System (SLS) core stage, earmarked for an uncrewed mid-2020 flight test around the Moon, was...

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