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Forum: Exploration: Asteroids, Moon and Mars
Topic: [Discuss] NASA's Artemis-1 mission (Orion)

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by p51 on 02-02-2022 01:07 PM <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]The two solid rocket boosters that will power NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) for Artemis missions to the Moon are on their way...[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> I do wonder how they get them to the railhead. I assume by truck? Do they load them on at Ogden's freight yard? There are no railroad tracks going that far, which is ironic when you consider that facility is within sight of the where the golden spike was driven (which though symbolically completing the transcontinental railroad in 1869, it didn't in fact as there were still two gaps at the time, but that's another subject). The rails through there were yanked out during WW2 in favor of a nearby route that now crosses the Great Salt Lake. There is an ancient freight siding that heads toward the area but stops well short of the facility (and those rails aren't in great shape anyway).
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