NASA Artemis III SLS Core Stage Weather Cover Arrival | Kennedy Space Center
NASA’s Pegasus barge carrying a weather cover for the Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage, arrives Sunday, June 21, 2026, at the Launch Complex 39 turn basin at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA’s Pegasus barge carrying a weather cover for the Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage, arrives Sunday, June 21, 2026, at the Launch Complex 39 turn basin at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Teams load a weather cover for the Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage on Monday, June 22, 2026, from NASA’s Pegasus barge at the Launch Complex 39 turn basin to transport the hardware to the spaceport’s Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Teams transport a weather cover for the Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage from NASA’s Pegasus barge to the spaceport’s Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, June 22, 2026.
A technician oversees the arrival of a weather cover for the Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage from NASA’s Pegasus barge to the spaceport’s Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, June 22, 2026.
NASA’s Pegasus barge carrying a weather cover for the Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage, arrived Sunday, June 21, 2026, at the Launch Complex 39 turn basin at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The cover will protect the stage’s thermal systems while SLS sits atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B in its short stack configuration.
Planned to launch in 2027, the Artemis III Mission will practice docking the Orion spacecraft with two lunar landers in low Earth orbit.
On future missions, including Artemis IV in 2028, landers will bring astronauts to the lunar surface. While Artemis III will not land on the Moon, it will test the complex capabilities we need to return—this time to stay.
NASA will send four Artemis astronauts on increasingly difficult missions to explore more of the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, establish an enduring human presence on the lunar surface, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars.
Learn more about NASA’s Artemis program:
Image Credit: NASA/Amber Jean Notvest
Date: June 21, 2025
Date: June 21, 2025
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