NASA’s Prepares to Send Artemis I Spacecraft to Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio
By NASA information center // January 7, 2024
NASA & SPACE NEWS
(NASA) – From Florida to the Moon and back, NASA’s Orion spacecraft is still making moves. The crew module that flew more than 1.4 million miles during the agency’s historic Artemis I mission is getting ready for its next destination – NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio.
Technicians inside NASA’s Multi-Payload Processing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, use a crane to lift the Artemis I spacecraft – now called an environmental test article – into the crew module transportation fixture in preparation for its departure.
Engineers will use it in qualification tests to better understand how Orion would perform in the event of a launch or inflight abort.
After splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission returned to Kennedy in December 2022. Components scheduled for reuse on Artemis II were removed and the crew module was reconfigured to serve as a test article.
With crew module function tests now complete, the test article has been prepared for transport with the installation of the aft, mid-bay back shell, and the side hatch in final closure.
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