ALT Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and primary contractor Amentum, integrate the Space Launch System Moon rocket with the solid rocket boosters onto mobile launcher 1 inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Mar. 23, 2025. The core stage of the rocket has orange paneling and the booster on either side are white with the red NASA logo. The perspective of the image is from below the rocket looking up. Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux

ALT Technicians with NASA and Lockheed Martin operate a 30-ton crane to move NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA Kennedy on Feb. 22, 2025. The move prepares for the upcoming installation of four solar array wings and spacecraft adapter jettison fairings. The perspective of the image is from below the Orion spacecraft looking up. Credit: NASA/Cory S. Huston

ALT NASA’s Artemis II crew members (front to back) NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen descend the well deck of the USS San Diego as NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team and partners from the Department of Defense aboard the ship practice recovery procedures using the Crew Module Test Article, during Underway Recovery Test 11 (URT-11) off the coast of San Diego, California on Feb. 25, 2024. Credit: NASA/Isaac Watson

ALT A full scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft is seen during Underway Recovery Test-12 onboard USS Somerset off the coast of California, Mar. 26, 2025. The spacecraft has dark gray paneling, four yellow inflatables attached to the top, and is seen floating in the water. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls