NASA Artemis III Solid Rocket Booster Stacking | Kennedy Space Center
Artemis III crew members, NASA astronauts Randy Bresnick (left) and Andre Douglas, view the right-hand aft assembly solid rocket booster segment of the Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) rocket inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, July 10, 2026. The astronauts met with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems teams and got a close look at the work underway for their upcoming mission. Bresnick, Douglas, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, and the European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano will launch on the Artemis III mission to conduct critical rendezvous and docking tests with lunar lander systems in low Earth orbit, advancing the capabilities needed before astronauts return to the lunar surface on Artemis IV.
Technicians use a massive crane to lift the right-hand forward center assembly solid rocket booster segment for the Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) rocket inside the Rotation, Processing, and Surge Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, July 14, 2026.
The right-hand aft assembly solid rocket booster segment for NASA’s Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) rocket arrives at the agency’s Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, July 9, 2026, ahead of stacking on top of the mobile launcher for the Artemis III mission.
The left-hand and right-hand aft assembly solid rocket booster segments for NASA’s Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) rocket are secured to the mobile launcher at the agency’s Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
The left-hand and right-hand aft assembly solid rocket booster segments for NASA’s Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) rocket are secured to the mobile launcher at the agency’s Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) lowered and secured the left-hand aft assembly solid rocket booster segment for NASA’s Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the mobile launcher at the agency’s Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, July 9, 2026.
Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems lowered and secured the left-hand aft assembly solid rocket booster segment for NASA’s Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the mobile launcher at the agency’s Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, July 9, 2026.
Boeing employees, from left to right, Adam Shaffer, Electrical Ground Systems equipment and technical lead engineer; Anna Fischer, Space Launch System electrical engineering intern; Ethan Minvielle, Space Launch System electrical engineering intern; and Joseph Colangelo, Space Launch System Test and evaluation engineering intern, pose for a photograph following left-hand aft assembly solid rocket booster segment for NASA’s Artemis III SLS (Space Launch System) was secured to the mobile launcher at the agency’s Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA Kennedy on Thursday, July 9, 2026.
The twin solid rocket boosters (SRBs), manufactured by Northrop Grumman in Utah, will provide more than 75 percent of the SLS rocket’s total thrust at launch. Planned to launch in 2027, the Artemis III Mission will launch astronauts in the Orion spacecraft on top of the SLS rocket to test rendezvous and docking capabilities in low Earth orbit between Orion and commercial spacecraft needed to land astronauts on the Moon.
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 NASA needs to return—this time to stay.
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Image Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky/Kim Shiflett/Frank Michaux
Dates: July 9-14, 2026
Dates: July 9-14, 2026
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