Exploration Ground Systems’ mobile launcher departs from Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on June 27, 2019, for its final solo trek to Launch Complex 39B in Florida. The mobile launcher departed from the VAB at midnight for the 10-hour journey to the pad, where it will remain for the summer, undergoing final testing and checkouts. Its next roll to the pad will be with the agency’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft in preparation for the launch of Artemis 1.
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NASA/Ben Smegelsky
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Exploration Ground Systems’ mobile launcher departs from Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on June 27, 2019, for its final solo trek to Launch Complex 39B in Florida. The mobile launcher departed from the VAB at midnight for the 10-hour journey to the pad, where it will remain for the summer, undergoing final testing and checkouts. Its next roll to the pad will be with the agency’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft in preparation for the launch of Artemis 1.