Astronauts Visit To MPPF

NASA astronauts Josh Cassada, left, and Sunita “Suni” Williams, far right, view the Orion spacecraft with Adam Leppek, Spacecraft Offline deputy element operations manager with ARES Corporation (KLXSIII), inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) during a visit to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 6, 2021. During their time at Kennedy, Cassada and Williams also had the opportunity to view the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket – this and Orion being serviced inside the MPPF ahead of the Artemis I launch. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will test Orion and SLS as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon.