Connecting the pieces. 🧩 Crews at @NASAMarshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, offloaded a transportation stand from the agency’s Pegasus barge on Jan. 9, 2023. The barge ferried the stand from @NASAKennedy Space Center in Florida, where it was used to transport the launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the #Artemis I mission. The nearly 28-foot-tall (8.5-meter-tall) LVSA is a cone-shaped element that connects the rocket’s core stage and interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS). The LVSA partially covers the in-space stage’s single RL10 engine and is fully produced and manufactured at Marshall by Teledyne Brown Engineering, the LVSA lead contractor. The transportation stand is one of two at Marshall and will be used as teams continue to manufacture the LVSA for Artemis III. The other stand is in use for the production of the Artemis II LVSA. NASA and Teledyne Brown use the stands to maneuver the LVSA hardware from facility to ...