# @nasaartemis on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CuFYxnjO5FB
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15340949-nasaartemis-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-06-29T18:22:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

Within crew access arm’s reach

The crew access arm (CAA) has been extended in this view of the mobile launcher on June 13, 2023. The CAA is the entry and exit point astronauts will use for access to the Orion spacecraft.

Tests will be conducted to ensure the arm and supporting mobile launcher systems are certified to support crewed missions, including #Artemis II. This summer, workers will conduct swing tests of the arm to ensure it and supporting mobile launcher systems are certified to support crewed missions.

In July, teams at NASAKennedy expect to complete the environmental control system at Launch Pad 39B, which provides air supply, thermal control, and pressurization to SLS and Orion. Engineers will demonstrate the system as part of the verification and validation testing.

After the mobile launcher arrives at the launch pad, ground systems teams at Kennedy and the Artemis II crew will conduct a day of launch dry run, including operations for the crew, closeout crew, and the pad rescue team. The test will include being inside crew quarters, putting on their orange Orion Crew Survival System spacesuits, and heading to the launch pad in the new all-electric crew transportation vehicles. Future tests with the crew include demonstrating the end-to-end emergency egress process from the white room – the room inside the mobile launcher’s crew access arm – to the pad evacuation site.

Image description: The mobile launcher towers above in the center of the image, with the crew access arm jutting out high up from its right side. On the left side an orange crane stands nearby against the bright blue sky with wispy white clouds.

Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

#MobileLauncher #Kennedy #Launch #Astronauts #Crew #Orion #Spacecraft

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launch, astronauts, crew, artemis, spacecraft, kennedy, orion, mobilelauncher

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