{"id":37758,"date":"2020-01-10T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T11:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/first-nasa-sls-core-stage-rolls-out-ships-to-stennis\/"},"modified":"2020-01-10T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T11:30:07","slug":"first-nasa-sls-core-stage-rolls-out-ships-to-stennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/first-nasa-sls-core-stage-rolls-out-ships-to-stennis\/","title":{"rendered":"First NASA SLS Core Stage rolls out \u2013 Ships to Stennis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working through almost all of the standard fortnight year-end holiday, Boeing\u2019s final assembly team for NASA\u2019s Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage completed work on their first rocket with Core Stage-1 leaving the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) factory early on the morning of January 8.<\/p>\n

NASA held a ceremonial event in early December to mark completion of work to install and interconnect all of the stage\u2019s functional equipment. Boeing is the prime contractor for the Core Stage and the final assembly team spent the last month finishing integrated functional checkouts and final outfitting to prepare it for the upcoming Green Run test campaign at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.<\/p>\n

Core Stage-1 was not just the first flight article to roll out of the factory, it is also the SLS Program\u2019s first working article. As the final assembly team worked to finish their first core, they employed more improvisation, from finishing integration all horizontally during the year to a last-minute reparking idea to finish the last task in time for the rollout date.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n