NASA's mobile launcher is in view inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sept. 11, 2018. Several of the new work platforms that will surround the mobile launcher during stacking and processing operations are in view. The mobile launcher will spend seven months in the VAB undergoing testing. The 380-foot-tall structure is equipped with the crew access arm and several umbilicals that will provide power, environmental control, pneumatics, communication and electrical connections to the agency's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft. Exploration Ground Systems is preparing the ground systems necessary to launch SLS and Orion on Exploration Mission-1, missions to the Moon and on to Mars.
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Kennedy Space Center
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NASA/Frank Michaux
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NASA's mobile launcher is in view inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sept. 11, 2018. Several of the new work platforms that will surround the mobile launcher during stacking and processing operations are in view. The mobile launcher will spend seven months in the VAB undergoing testing. The 380-foot-tall structure is equipped with the crew access arm and several umbilicals that will provide power, environmental control, pneumatics, communication and electrical connections to the agency's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft. Exploration Ground Systems is preparing the ground systems necessary to launch SLS and Orion on Exploration Mission-1, missions to the Moon and on to Mars.