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SLS Core Stage Shipped To Stennis For Green Run

Irene Klotz January 17, 2020

long space launcher — The 212-ft.-long Space Launch System core stage heads out from an assembly hangar at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in east New Orleans on Jan. 8, heading to the waiting Pegasus barge for transport to Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
Credit: NASA

When the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump decided last year to speed up NASA’s human lunar exploration blueprint by four years, it immediately hit a formidable obstacle: The first Space Launch System (SLS) core stage, earmarked for an uncrewed mid-2020 flight test around the Moon, was...

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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