NASA's Artemis program has one tower standing and one just getting started.
Mobile launcher 1 , which endured some significant damage after its use on the Artemis I mission last November, has been undergoing repairs and enhancements in preparation for its reuse on next year's planned Artemis II flight, the first with humans on board.
For now, though, it has work planned at the launch site where NASA's Exploration Ground Systems team will perform tests and work on upgrades for both the launcher and the launch pad.
Meanwhile, Bechtel National Inc., NASA's prime contractor to construct a sister mobile launcher, bolted together the first pieces of steel Wednesday at KSC for what will end up being the even bigger mobile launcher 2 . The slightly taller platform will be 390 feet tall. When finished, the ML-2 will weigh about 11.3 million pounds and be able to support the Block 1B version as well as a planned Block 2 version of SLS that is planned to have even more power at liftoff than the first Artemis missions, which produce 8.8 million pounds of thrust on liftoff, and to date is the most powerful rocket to ever reach orbit.
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