US EditionArtemis II rocket begins its slow roll out to launch pad ahead of April flight date
NASA's Artemis II mission will carry four astronauts, including the first non-American beyond low Earth orbit, on a lunar flyby with Pacific Ocean splashdown.
- The Artemis II rocket, which will carry Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen around the Moon, has started moving to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center.
- Rollout began early Friday after a brief delay caused by high winds, and the journey to the pad is expected to take up to 12 hours.
- The mission, part of Artemis program, was previously delayed due to hydrogen leaks and helium issues but is now scheduled for launch on April 1.
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NASA hauls its repaired moon rocket from the hangar back to the pad for an early April launch
NASA is moving its moon rocket back out to the launch pad following hangar repairs. The 322-foot rocket made the slow four-mile trek Friday at Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
After almost a month of repairs, the Nasa began to move the SLS rocket to its launch pad this night, which will fly to the Moon. The maneuver, delicate, could take up to 12 hours. The mission's first potential launch window begins on April 1. - Mission Artemis II: after several weeks of repairs, the rocket on its way to its firing pad (Sciences).
The US space agency NASA has begun this morning the slow and delicate process of pulling out of the hangar its most powerful rocket, the SLS, and bringing it to the takeoff platform. The shuttle, as high as a 32-story building, will be responsible for bringing four astronauts to the Moon for the first time in more than half a century. Among them will be the first woman, the first black and the first Canadian to travel to the satellite. If everyt…
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