Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Early 2026 is when NASA aims to launch its astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremey Hansen on the Artemis 2 mission around the Moon and back.
For more than two years at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency has been assembling the various pieces of the 322-foot-tall Space Launch System rocket, topped with the Orion spacecraft, that will carry the four astronauts on a ten-day journey.
Now that the rocket is complete, here's a comprehensive overview of how the launch vehicle came together, piece by piece, as the mission's launch date was impacted by launch delays, stemming from learnings derived from the Artemis 1 mission in November 2022.
Additional video from NASA.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:32 It began with a train...
01:42 Mission delayed
03:19 Core stage arrival
03:48 VAB stacking begins
04:12 Mission delayed, again
05:36 Core stage on the move
05:45 Industry day update
07:42 Solid rocket booster stacking picks up
07:55 Core stage final move
08:16 Upper stage assembly
08:43 Orion hits the road
10:00 Conclusion
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Early 2026 is when NASA aims to launch its astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremey Hansen on the Artemis 2 mission around the Moon and back.
For more than two years at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency has been assembling the various pieces of the 322-foot-tall Space Launch System rocket, topped with the Orion spacecraft, that will carry the four astronauts on a ten-day journey.
Now that the rocket is complete, here's a comprehensive overview of how the launch vehicle came together, piece by piece, as the mission's launch date was impacted by launch delays, stemming from learnings derived from the Artemis 1 mission in November 2022.
Additional video from NASA.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:32 It began with a train...
01:42 Mission delayed
03:19 Core stage arrival
03:48 VAB stacking begins
04:12 Mission delayed, again
05:36 Core stage on the move
05:45 Industry day update
07:42 Solid rocket booster stacking picks up
07:55 Core stage final move
08:16 Upper stage assembly
08:43 Orion hits the road
10:00 Conclusion
This coverage is made possible by the support of our members. Join this channel to help us expand our coverage and get access to perks:
youtube.com/channel/UCoLdERT4-TJ82PJOHSrsZLQ/join
#space #news #nasa #artemis2 #artemisii #artemis #sls #orion #kennedyspacecenter
