Artemis 2 & SLS: Space Shuttle Heritage

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The Artemis 2 mission will send 4 Astronauts around the Moon to test deep-space and life support systems in preparation for an Artemis 3 crewed landing.

The Space Launch System (SLS) is actually built upon some of the hardware of the Space Shuttle, a spacecraft used to help build the International Space Station and flew from 1981 to 2011.

Engineers replaced the winged orbiter with Orion, while stretching the shuttle’s orange external tank into the rocket’s core stage. Four former shuttle main engines power that core.

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