The NASA-funded Space Launch System (SLS), the massive rocket slated to send the Artemis 2 crew around the moon in 2025, is now seeing its supplementary solid rocket boosters stacked at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (The prime contractor of SLS is Boeing.)

A space capsule that traveled 1.4 million miles around the moon was on display at a NASA facility in Ohio. NASA says the capsule underwent testing to ensure that it's ready for a future crewed Artemis mission.

The readiness of the Orion crew capsule, where the four Artemis II astronauts will live during their voyage around the Moon, is driving NASA's schedule for the mission. Officially, Artemis II is projected to launch in September of next year, but there's little chance of meeting that schedule.