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INTERVIEW ARLAN COCHRAN, NASA

ROCKET MAN (on the Water)

Arlan Cochran, Team Lead -

Logistics Engineering and Marine Operations, NASA, discusses the preparation and execution of moving the Space

Launch System core stage from the Michoud Assembly

Facility in New Orleans onboard NASA’s Pegasus barge.

By Greg Trauthwein

Watch the interview with

Arlan Cochran @ bit.ly/2UX7Cdl

THE PEGASUS BARGE, carrying the Space Launch

System (SLS) core stage, passes through Port Canaveral on its way to NASA’s

Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 27, 2021, after journeying from the agency’s Stennis Space Center in

Mississippi. The core stage is the ? nal piece of Artemis hardware to arrive at the spaceport and will be of? oaded and moved to

Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building, where it will be prepared for integration atop the mobile launcher with the completed stack of solid rocket boosters ahead of the Artemis I launch. The ? rst in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will test SLS and

Orion as an integrated system prior to crewed ? ights to the Moon.

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