NASA Connects Last of 5 Structures to SLS Rocket Core Stage

NASA finished assembling and joining the five main structural components for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Sept. 19. NASA and Boeing, the core stage lead contractor, technicians bolted the engine section to the stage’s liquid hydrogen propellant tank that will help send Artemis I, the first flight of SLS and NASA’s Orion spacecraft, to the Moon. The engine section, located at the bottom of the 212-foot-tall stage, is one of the