The 188,000 lbs (85,275 kg) empty core stage of NASA's future crewed orbital moon mission is offloaded from the Pegasus barge and transported into the VAB for
vertical integration. Fully assembled the thrust is just over 8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff with two Northrop Grumman 5 segment SRB's and four RS-25 engines. Offload and transport took three hours from 9:00 AM to Noon with one brief light rain shower in the middle of the journey. (July 24th 2024)