First SLS Core Stage Departs Hangar

SLS Core Stage Rollout at Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans.
Credit: NASA
NEW ORLEANS—The shuttle-derived core booster for NASA’s first Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket rolled out from its processing hangar at the Michoud Assembly Facility in East New Orleans Jan. 8 and was loaded onto a barge for a nine-hour river cruise to Stennis Space Center in Mississippi...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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