Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.
A crane lowers a solid rocket motor atop its aft skit for the vertical display of space shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center in Los Angeles and the lower segment for an Artemis II solid rocket motor is mated with its aft skirt at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
That transfer and lift is currently targeted for the end of February. After that, three center SRM segments for each booster will be rotated into the vertical in the RPSF and then brought over to the VAB to be lifted into the high bay and placed atop the aft assemblies. "There are 177 one-inch-long pins that have to be put in," said Jeffrey Rudolph, president and CEO of the California Science Center.include components that flew with the same orbiter on 16 of its 25 missions. The Artemis 2 boosters are made up of parts that launched on 12 of Endeavour's flights, including its first and last missions.
"We can typically do about two joints a week and we have eight joints. So it is about two to two and a half months for that to happen," Christopherson said.
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