Artemis: crawling towards launch
One of the many milestones in the leadup to the launch of Artemis is its rollout: this is when a crawler will carry the SLS rocket with Orion and ESM from the Vehicle Assembly Building to launchpad 39B. @NASA’s John Giles gives us a tour of the crawler and explains the adaptations made to this “wonderful piece of machinery” since it was first built for the Apollo programme in the 1960s. ESA is playing a key role in NASA’s Artemis programme, which will bring astronauts back to the Moon. The European Service Module – or ESM – will provide propulsion, power and thermal control for the Orion spacecraft.
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Video credits: European Space Agency
Thumbnail image credits: NASA/Leif Heimbold
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Fantastic footage, info, and a nice video length. Well presented too, as others have said. These are exciting times!
nice video, but the language of science is metric, not freedom burger
Why not use a train like the Russians do for the Soyuz? That'll be one very pregnant Ms. Crawler.
Americans and their units for weight and lenght… Btw. impressive engineering.