Technicians with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems team transport NASA’s Orion spacecraft fully assembled with its launch abort system out of the Launch Abort System Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. Once at the Vehicle Assembly Building, Orion will be stacked atop the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in High Bay 3 to prepare for the Artemis II mission set to carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day mission around the Moon and back in early 2026.

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