1 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:02,600 hi I'm NASA Kennedy's Michael Guzman and 2 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:08,390 full-scale mock-up of the Space Launch 3 00:00:12,770 --> 00:00:10,410 System rocket core stage has arrived at 4 00:00:14,780 --> 00:00:12,780 Kennedy Space Center the 212 footlong 5 00:00:17,090 --> 00:00:14,790 core stage Pathfinder was carried to the 6 00:00:19,580 --> 00:00:17,100 launch complex 39 turn basin aboard 7 00:00:21,410 --> 00:00:19,590 NASA's Pegasus Bart the core stage is 8 00:00:22,820 --> 00:00:21,420 the backbone of the SLS rocket which 9 00:00:24,439 --> 00:00:22,830 will carry the agency's Orion's 10 00:00:26,929 --> 00:00:24,449 spacecraft on Artemis missions to the 11 00:00:29,179 --> 00:00:26,939 moon and beyond the exploration ground 12 00:00:30,679 --> 00:00:29,189 systems team will use the Pathfinder to 13 00:00:32,569 --> 00:00:30,689 practice stacking maneuvers and other 14 00:00:34,490 --> 00:00:32,579 procedures before the actual hardware 15 00:00:38,030 --> 00:00:34,500 arrives to be processed for the Artemis 16 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:38,040 one mission NASA's next space weather 17 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:39,510 Explorer is now at Cape Canaveral Air 18 00:00:44,060 --> 00:00:41,910 Force Station the ionospheric connection 19 00:00:46,639 --> 00:00:44,070 Explorer or icon it sealed inside a 20 00:00:48,049 --> 00:00:46,649 Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket which 21 00:00:51,380 --> 00:00:48,059 was delivered to Florida aboard the 22 00:00:52,610 --> 00:00:51,390 company's l-1011 aircraft stargazer icon 23 00:00:54,380 --> 00:00:52,620 will studies his own high in Earth's 24 00:00:56,450 --> 00:00:54,390 atmosphere where I planets where there 25 00:00:58,010 --> 00:00:56,460 meets space weather the Pegasus XL 26 00:00:59,779 --> 00:00:58,020 rocket will be air launched from the 27 00:01:02,439 --> 00:00:59,789 stargazer as it flies off Florida's east 28 00:01:05,270 --> 00:01:02,449 coast launch is targeted for October 9