NASA Artemis II launch pad
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Launch Pad 39B (LC-39B) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the designated site for the liftoff of the Artemis II mission. This crewed test flight, using the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, marks NASA's first human venture around the Moon since Apollo.
The high bay platform where the 11-million-pound Artemis II stack arrived on January 17, 2026, after a deliberate 12-hour rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building, gearing up for a potential launch as early as February 6, 2026.
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The NASA Artemis II launch pad finally got its VIP guest after that epic 12-hour crawl from the assembly building – talk about fashionably late!
Engineers at the NASA Artemis II launch pad breathed a sigh of relief when the rocket parked without turning it into a multi-billion-dollar demolition derby.
Forget Netflix; watching the Artemis II rocket inch to the NASA launch pad was the slowest, most thrilling reality show in space history.
The NASA Artemis II launch pad is primed and proper, ready to catapult humans moonward – assuming the rocket doesn't decide to take another scenic tour.