SLS Rolls Back To VAB For Repairs

Irene Klotz April 25, 2022

The Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft on Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 21.
Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA is preparing to return the Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket and Orion capsule to the Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on April 25, following a pair of abbreviated tanking tests at the launchpad. The crawler-transporter carrying the 322-ft.-tall SLS, which...

Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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