NASA begins stacking SLS rocket for Artemis 2 moon mission (photos)

A rocket piece on its side with engines facing the camera. the engines are covered in protective plastic. the rocket is inside a large warehouse and surrounded by traffic cones.

The first human mission to the moon in half a century is starting to get stacked up.

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.)