# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BZoAlksFpNZ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15344911-nasaartemis-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/83fdaa9c47.jpg
- **Posted:** 2017-09-29T12:35:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

We are in awe of this photo of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage pathfinder, which is similar in similar in size, shape and weight to the 212-foot-tall core stage, arriving at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility early in the morning on September 27, 2017. To reduce the risk of first-time operations with one-of-a-kind spaceflight hardware for SLS, the agency built a core stage pathfinder. Like SLS, the core stage pathfinder will be doing something that's never been done -- testing new shipping and handling equipment and procedures from the manufacturing site to the test site to the launch site.

Credit: NASA/MSFC/MAF/Steven Seipel

#NASA #hardware #testing #rocketscience #sls #gsdo #orion #earlymorning #beautiful

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nasa, gsdo, rocketscience, hardware, testing, beautiful, earlymorning, sls, orion

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