PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. – It takes a big barge to move a big rocket. A key piece of hardware for NASA’s Artemis moon rocket floated into Port Canaveral Tuesday afternoon in the final stages of its journey from the Gulf Coast.
The Space Launch System, or Artemis rocket, core stage was transported on the Pegasus barge to Florida after a successful green run test in Mississippi at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. [TRENDING: Private school won’t allow vaccine | Musk warns of deadly Mars mission | Look up!
First supermoon of 2021] The Pegasus floated into Port Canaveral around noon Tuesday escorted by tug boats. The 212-foot core stage along with the SLS rocket boosters produce more than 8.8 million pounds of thrust.