ESM-1 at the Vehicle Assembly Building

Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center moved the Orion spacecraft for the uncrewed Artemis I mission into the Vehicle Assembly Building.

The first Orion spacecraft will be integrated on top of the Space Launch System rocket in its final preparations. The spacecraft’s European-built service module is fixed under the pressurized Orion crew compartment.

The European Service Module will take the spacecraft more than 64 000 km beyond the Moon in a test flight to demonstrate its capabilities.