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Artemis 1 SLS Stack Grows As NASA Prepares Deep Space Test Dummies For Orion

Artemis 1 At KSC Ready For 18-m Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Upper Stage Next Week, Now Fitted With 9.1-m Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter Atop 65m Core, Itself Sitting Between 54-m Twin Solid Fuel Boosters; Orion Stage Adapter And Crew Module Mass Simulator To Follow In Stacking Sequence, Completed Total Height ~98m; Uncrewed Artemis 1 Launch Still Hoped For 2021, Acceleration And Kinetic Forces To Be Measured By Seated ‘Moonikin’, Radiation Exposure Tested With Torso ‘Phantoms’ Helga And Zohar, Equipped With 5,616 Dosimeters, Part of DLR / ISA Matroshka AstroRad Radiation Experiment

 

Credits: NASA