
The massive Space Launch System core stage for NASA's Artemis III mission arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 27, 2026, after a 900-mile sea voyage from the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. At 212 feet tall with tanks designed to hold more than 733,000 gallons of super-chilled liquid propellant for four RS-25 engines, the core stage is now being assembled in the Vehicle Assembly Building for a launch targeted in 2027. Artemis III will send astronauts to Earth orbit to test rendezvous and docking with SpaceX's Human Landing System, paving the way for Artemis IV to carry humans to the Moon's surface in 2028 for the first time since 1972.
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