Boeing-built core stage completes mission on NASA Integrity spacecraft

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, powered by the Boeing (BA)-built core stage, lifted off at 6:35 p.m. ET. Eight and a half minutes into flight, the core stage successfully completed its mission and separated from the upper stage of the rocket, enabling NASA’s Orion spacecraft, Integrity, to carry humankind around the moon. The Boeing team is preparing the next core stages for the Artemis III to V missions, which are already in production at Michoud and Kennedy.