{"id":642049,"date":"2026-05-01T05:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642049\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T05:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:26:16","slug":"artemis-iii-moon-rocket-core-stage-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642049\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis III Moon Rocket Core Stage on the Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teams move the core stage, or largest section, of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/artemis-iii\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/artemis-iii\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artemis III<\/a> mission into the Vehicle Assembly Building at\u00a0the agency\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida\u00a0in this photo from\u00a0April 27, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0SLS core stage traveled\u00a0900 miles\u00a0on\u00a0the Pegasus barge from NASA\u2019s Michoud Assembly Facility\u00a0in\u00a0New Orleans\u00a0where\u00a0the stage is manufactured, to complete assembly of the massive rocket at NASA Kennedy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This mission\u00a0will launch crew\u00a0aboard\u00a0the\u00a0Orion spacecraft on top of the SLS rocket to test rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and commercial spacecraft needed to land astronauts on the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/Glenn Benson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teams move the core stage, or largest section, of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for NASA\u2019s Artemis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[54064,64,63,3109,128,285,92395],"class_list":["post-642049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-artemis-3","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-launch-system-sls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}