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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.