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NASA Stacks Artemis 2 Moon Mission's Orion Capsule Atop SLS Rocket Ahead of 2026 Launch

NASA maintains Artemis 2 launch prep during government shutdown with 989 Kennedy Space Center civil servants excepted from furloughs, ensuring mission safety and supply chain stability.

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The Artemis 2 SLS rocket that will launch the next astronauts around the moon is all put together inside NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building.

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More than half a century after the footsteps of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, NASA completes the preparations for the Artemis II mission, the first scheduled manned mission of the Orion spacecraft. Artemis 2 will be manned by four astronauts (Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen). In this context, NASA has launched the initiative "Send your name with Artemis" ("Send your name with Artemis"). Anyone, regardl…

It is she who has to carry the four astronauts of the Artemis 2 mission around the Moon. In the assembly building of the Kennedy Space Center, the Orion capsule of the Nasa has just been raised to the top of the Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket of the agency.

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Space News broke the news in Mojave, United States on Tuesday, October 21, 2025.
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