Launch System Rockets Core Stage has arrived at Kennedy Space Center. The 2012 foot long Core Stage Pathfinder was carried to the launch complex 39 turn basins aboard NASA's Pegasus Barge. The Core Stage is the backbone of the SLS rocket, which will carry the agencies Orion spacecraft on Artemis missions to the moon and beyond. The exploration ground systems team will use the Pathfinder to practice stacking maneuvers and other procedures before the actual hardware arrives to be processed for the Artemis 1 mission. NASA's next space weather explorer is now at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The ionosphere connection explorer, or ICON, is sealed inside an Earth-Rup Grumman Pegasus XL rocket, which was delivered to Florida aboard the company's L-1011 aircraft, Stargazer. ICON will study its own high-energy atmosphere, where our planets weather meets space weather. The Pegasus XL rocket will be air launched from the Stargazer as it flies off Florida's east coast.