First SLS Core Booster Arrives At Kennedy Space Center

Irene Klotz April 28, 2021
SLS
Traveling inside the Pegasus barge, the SLS boosters arrived at KSC after a 900-mi. journey from Mississippi.
Credit: NASA drone team
CAPE CANAVERAL—The core booster for the debut launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket arrived at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on April 27, representing a milestone a decade in the making. Anchored inside NASA’s 310-ft.-long, 50-ft.-wide Pegasus barge, the Boeing-built core stage completed a...
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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