NASA rolls out Artemis III moon rocket core stage

Following the recent successful test flight of NASA's Artemis II mission around the moon, NASA rolled out the core stage, or the largest section, of the agency's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will launch the crewed Artemis III mission in 2027. The stage departed from the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Monday for shipment to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking key progress on the path to the agency's first crewed lunar landing mission to the moon under the Artemis program in two years.