The first rocket designed to carry astronauts to the moon for the first time in 50 years is fully assembled in Florida, prompting NASA to announce a launch date.
The space launch system or SLS, rocket, and Orion spacecraft were stacked inside the historic Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center early this week. The rocket will be the first of the agency's new moon program, Artemis, the liftoff early next year on an uncrewed test flight.
"It's funny anytime we have a full moon I look up here and I kind of think about the mission that we've got, and it always gets me pumped up," KSC Exploration Ground Systems manager Mike Bolger said. While this will be the maiden launch of SLS, it will mark Orion's second spaceflight but first to deep space.
Artemis-1 will be "a much more rigorous, a mission to the moon, which is 1,000 times farther from Earth than where the space station flies today and will demonstrate the capability of our spacecraft in a more extreme radiation environment," Kerner said.
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