Artemis III Liquid Oxygen Tank Moves to the Final Phase of production.

🚀 NASA Artemis III | Liquid Oxygen Tank Moved at Michoud Assembly Facility 🌙

On August 27, 2025, NASA crews at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans successfully moved a massive liquid oxygen tank out of the Vertical Assembly Building. Using advanced self-propelled mobile transporters (SPMTs), the tank was carefully transferred to the final assembly production area, where the Space Launch System (SLS) prime contractor Boeing will integrate the forward dome.

This liquid oxygen tank is one of the five major elements that form the 212-foot-tall SLS core stage—the most powerful rocket ever built to carry NASA’s Orion spacecraft, astronauts, and cargo beyond Earth’s orbit. After integration, the tank will be returned to the high bay, where it will be joined with the intertank and forward skirt, completing the forward join of the Artemis III core stage.

The SLS core stage, powered by four RS-25 engines, generates more than two million pounds of thrust, making it the backbone of NASA’s Artemis program—designed to return astronauts to the Moon and pave the way for future Mars missions.

🔥 Watch this incredible milestone in space exploration as NASA and Boeing prepare the rocket that will launch the Artemis III mission to the lunar surface.