NASA's powerful SLS rocket is set for an epic lunar flight next year. But first it has to get to the launch site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA ’s powerful Space Launch System rocket is set to blast four astronauts to space next year on the epic Artemis II mission that will come within about 80 miles of the lunar surface.
Recommended Videos Boeing Space, which helped to manufacture NASA’s most powerful rocket to date, shared some footage of the start of the rocket booster’s journey as it departed NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans, Louisiana, earlier this week before being carefully transported 1.3 miles to the Pegasus barge.
Stay tuned — Artemis II is set to transport four astronauts around the Moon. pic.twitter.com/qxvgInORsZ The barge will sail 900 miles to the Kennedy Space Center, where the SLS will undergo final outfitting testing ahead of the highly anticipated Artemis II moon mission, which is currently set for September 2025.
The Artemis II mission will mark the return of humankind to lunar orbit for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
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