A moment more than a decade in the making. NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the Artemis 1 mission made its first trip down the crawlerway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday evening, March 17.
Rollout first motion happened just before 6:00 pm EDT (22:00 UTC) for a planned 11-hour journey to LC-39B. But when SLS arrived at the pad Friday morning, it found a completely different, rebuilt launch complex from the previous vehicles that called it home.