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ARTEMIS PROGRAM: Accelerating Toward a 2024 Moon Landing NASA is charged with the extraordinary mission of putting the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. In the past year, Kennedy Space Center has been a hub of critical activity progressing toward that monumental mission. The dedicated, mission-focused members of the Exploration Ground Systems, Orion, and Space Launch System (SLS) programs, along with the Gateway Deep Space Logistics team, accomplished significant milestones during fiscal year 2020 that included spacecraft assembly, preparing the ground support systems, priming the launch team, receiving rocket segments, and building the deep space commercial supply chain that will support the astronauts in their arrival and landing on the Moon and venture beyond to Mars.
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Orion crew and service modules for Artemis I are transported to NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, for environmental testing to certify they are ready for flight
Validation and verification are completed on the mobile launcher swing arm, Pad 39B xenon lights, and the fire suppression system
SLS pathfinder booster segment lifting practice
Firing room simulations and cryogenic fueling countdown are completed
SpaceX announced as first awardee under the Gateway Logistics Services contract
Artemis II Launch Abort System jettison motor arrives
Gateway Deep Space Logistics provides the keynote address at the Air Cargo Conference
Landing and Recovery Team validates Orion recovery procedures during Underway Recovery Test-8
Orion spacecraft returns to Kennedy aboard NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft and is transported back to the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay for final production processing for Artemis I
