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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Artemis III SLS Liquid Hydrogen Tank by Steven B. Seipel Teams at NASA MAF in New Orleans move a hydrogen tank for SLS into the factory’s final assembly area on 4-22. Having completed thermal protection system application, teams will continue outfitting the 130’ tank with systems for Artemis III.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Artemis II MRAP training by NASA/Kim Shiflett Teams trained with the mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles, or MRAPs, inside the launch pad terminus area, where the emergency egress baskets carrying the astronauts and flight crew will arrive following their safe exit from the mobile launcher.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Artemis II Interim Crygoenic Propulsion Stage stacking by Isaac Watson NASA’s EGS begin integrating the ICPS to the Artemis II Space Launch System on April 30, 2025, inside the VAB at KSC in Florida. The 4-story propulsion system, built by Boeing and ULA, is powered by an RL10 engine.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Artemis III SLS Liquid Oxygen Tank by Michael DeMocker The propellant tank is one of five major elements that make up the 212-foot-tall rocket stage. The core stage, along with its four RS-25 engines, produce more than two million pounds of thrust to help launch NASA’s Orion spacecraft to the Moon.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Artemis II Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage move to the VAB by NASA/Cory S Huston Technicians fueled the SLS upper stage, ICPS, with hydrazine for its reaction control system at the MPPF and will now integrate the four-story propulsion system with SLS rocket elements atop mobile launcher 1

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

RS-25 hot fire preparations by Danny Nowlin Teams at NASA’s Stennis Space Center deliver, lift, and install the first new production RS-25 engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand on Feb. 18.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Artemis II SLS launch vehicle stage adapter stacking by NASA/Isaac Watson A crane lowers the LVSA onto the SLS core stage on April 3, 2025, in the VAB. During ascent, the LVSA provides structural support and protects avionics within the upper stage from extreme vibrations and acoustic conditions.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Gateway HALO packaging by Thales Alenia Space In Turin, Italy, technicians prepare Gateway’s HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) for transport. The module’s primary structure will travel to Northrop Grumman’s facility in Gilbert, Arizona, for final outfitting ahead of its launch to lunar orbit.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Artemis II mission patch. Photo by NASA/Robert Markowitz “This patch designates the mission as “AII,” signifying not only the second major flight of the Artemis campaign, but also an endeavor of discovery that seeks to explore for all and by all.”

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Underway Recovery Test 12 by NASA/Bill Ingalls The teams spent the week practicing the procedures they will use to recover the astronauts after their more than 600,000 mile journey from Earth to the Moon and back on the first crewed mission under the Artemis campaign.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Gateway AEPS Thruster Testing by NASA/GRC/Jef Janis NASA GRC has received the first of three AEPS thrusters for the Gateway lunar space station. The thruster will undergo testing before integration with Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element, launching with the HALO module ahead of Artemis IV.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Artemis Underway Recovery Test 12 by NASA/Bill Ingalls The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft, is seen as it is deployed from USS Somerset during the Underway Recovery Test-12, off the coast of California, Friday, March 28, 2025.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Artemis II SLS Launch Vehicle Stage Adaptor by NASA/Frank Michaux The cone shaped LVSA connects the SLS Moon rocket to the upper stage, the interim cryogenic propulsion stage, and protects the rocket’s flight computers, avionics, and electrical devices during launch and ascent.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Artemis II SLS core stage lift for stacking by NASA/Frank Michaux The move from the facility’s transfer aisle into High Bay 3 allows technicians to integrate the 212-foot-tall core stage with the stacked solid rocket boosters onto mobile launcher 1.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Artemis II SLS core stage stacking by NASA/Frank Michaux Teams with NASA’s EGS and primary contractor Amentum integrate the SLS Moon rocket with the solid rocket boosters onto mobile launcher 1 inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s KSC on Sunday, March 23, 2025.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Artemis II Orion fairing installation by NASA/Glenn Benson The fairings encapsulate the service module and protect the solar array wings, shielding them from the heat, wind, and acoustics of launch and ascent, as well as help redistribute the load between Orion and the massive thrust of SLS.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Artemis II Orion fairing installation by NASA/Glenn Benson The Artemis II Orion spacecraft following successful installation of three spacecraft adapter jettison fairings on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Artemis IV hardware in production by NASA/Michael DeMocker The forward skirt is one of five major elements that make up the 212-foot rocket stage. The core stage, along with its four RS-25 engines, produce more than two million pounds of thrust to help launch NASA’s Orion spacecraft to the Moon.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Artemis IV SLS forward skirt production by NASA/Michael DeMocker Teams in New Orleans lifting a forward skirt out of its vertical assembly center on Jan. 31, 2025. The forward skirt houses flight computers, cameras, and avionics.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Artemis I wet dress rehearsal SLS rollout by NASA/Ben Smegelsky NASA’s Artemis I Moon rocket – carried atop the crawler-transporter 2 – rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 6, 2022, beginning the 4.2-mile journey to Launch Complex 39B.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Artemis II SLS booster segment by NASA/Frank Michaux Engineers and technicians with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program transfer the right center center segment with the NASA worm insignia to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Orion Crew Modules for Artemis II, Artemis III, and Artemis IV by NASA/Marie Reed The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s crewed Artemis II (right), Artemis III (left), and Artemis IV (center) missions next to each other inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on June 22, 2023.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Artemis II Core Stage Lift from HB2 to Transfer Aisle by NASA/Kim Shiflett The 212-foot core stage will undergo final checkouts before being lifted into the VAB’s High Bay 3 for integration alongside the completed stack of twin solid rocket booster segments.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Orion Test Article in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab by NASA/James Blair U.S. Navy divers, Air Force pararescuemen and Coast Guard rescue swimmers practice Orion recovery techniques at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

NEO Surveyor Instrument Enclosure Inside Historic Chamber A by NASA Wrapped in silver thermal blanketing, the 12-foot-long (3.7-meter-long) angular structure was subjected to the frigid, airless conditions that the spacecraft will experience when in deep space.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Artemis II Core Stage Lift from HB2 to Transfer Aisle by NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA Exploration Ground Systems uses massive cranes inside the VAB to lift the fully assembled SLS core stage vertically 225 feet above the ground from High Bay 2 to a horizontal position in the transfer aisle.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Artemis II SLS core stage stacking by NASA/Kim Shiflett The 212-foot core stage will undergo final checkouts before being lifted into the VAB’s High Bay 3 for integration alongside the completed stack of twin solid rocket booster segments.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Crawler-Transporter 2 and Mobile Launcher 1 by NASA/Kim Shiflett The mobile launcher is equipped with a number of lines, called umbilicals, which will connect to NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion. CT-2 has been upgraded to handle the weight of the mobile launcher with SLS and Orion atop.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Gateway Power and Propulsion Element by Maxar Space Systems Technicians carefully install a piece of equipment to house Gateway’s xenon fuel tanks, part of its advanced electric propulsion system. 2024-07-01.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Orion Environmental Test Article by NASA/Quentin Schwinn The Orion ETA is passed through the vacuum chamber on its way to get ready for two critical tests in preparation for the Artemis II flight. There will be a jettison test of the Docking Module and a jettison test of the Forward Bay Cover.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, by JPL-Caltech In the octagonal black frame, the black-and-white navigation camera is the thick circle appearing between and just below the two larger lenses. The color camera is the circle that is inset from the edge of the fuselage, appearing below the octagonal frame.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

SPHEREx by NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems Using a technique called spectroscopy to image the entire sky in 102 wavelengths of infrared light, SPHEREx will gather information about the composition of and distance to millions of galaxies and stars.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Artemis I Space Launch System by NASA/Cory Huston A full Moon is in view from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 14, 2022.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Artemis II Astronauts visit their SLS core stage by NASA/Kim Shiflett The core stage has two giant propellant tanks that collectively hold more than 733,000 gallons of super cold liquid propellant to feed the stage’s four RS-25 engines.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Artemis V core stage production by NASA/Evan Deroche NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility move crew lifting a completed liquid hydrogen tank barrel off the Vertical Weld Center on Feb. 10.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Artemis II Orion solar panel installation by NASA JSC The four solar array wings for the Artemis II Orion spacecraft are installed inside the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 7, 2025.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Artemis III Orion production progress by NASA/Rad Sinyak Technicians work on the Artemis III Orion crew module inside the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 5, 2025.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Artemis I ICPS stacking by NASA/Kim Shiflett. The ICPS is a liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen-based system that will fire its RL 10 engine to give the Orion spacecraft the big in-space push needed to fly tens of thousands of miles beyond the Moon.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Gateway HALO module by Thales Alenia Space. Gateway’s HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) in a cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy, 2024-11-21.

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NASA Image and Video Library #1 Fan @nasaimageandvideo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Artemis II SLS core stage by NASA/Kim Shiflett Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems transport the agency’s 212-foot-tall SLS (Space Launch System) core stage into High Bay 2 at the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024.

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