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English: In High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a worker checks the right-hand forward segment on the center forward segment of the booster for Artemis I. The forward segments were lowered onto the twin solid rocket boosters on the mobile launcher (ML) for the Space Launch System (SLS) on Feb. 24, 2021. Workers with Exploration Ground Systems and contractor Jacobs teams are completing the stacking of the boosters. When the core stage arrives, it will join the boosters on the ML, followed by the interim cryogenic propulsion stage and Orion spacecraft. Manufactured by Northrop Grumman in Utah, the twin boosters provide more than 75 percent of the total SLS thrust at launch. The SLS is managed by Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Under the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will test the Orion spacecraft and SLS as an integrated system ahead of crewed flights to the Moon.