NASA has achieved a significant milestone in manufacturing the first large, complex core stage that will help power the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on upcoming missions to the Moon.
The space agency and lead contractor Boeing have assembled four-fifths of the massive core stage, which will store liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, needed to launch SLS and the Orion spacecraft on their first mission to the Moon: Artemis 1.
The Artemis programme will send the first woman and the next man to the Moon by 2024 and develop a sustainable human presence on the Moon by 2028.
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