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NASA Artemis II Rocket Rollout to Launch Pad Scheduled for Today
NASA completed repairs on the Artemis II rocket and plans a slow 12-hour rollout to Launch Pad 39B for a crewed lunar mission with four astronauts.
- On Thursday, NASA began rolling the Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, preparing the 322-foot vehicle for an April launch with four astronauts.
- Engineers returned the vehicle to the Vehicle Assembly Building several weeks ago to repair a helium blockage, following earlier hydrogen leaks that interfered with the original schedule earlier this year.
- NASA's crawler-transporter 2 will move the 11-million-pound stack along a 4-mile route in approximately 12 hours, while the crew—NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen—entered quarantine Wednesday in Houston.
- Officials formally cleared the mission for an April launch targeting April 1, though the agency has only six days to launch the crew on their 10-day lunar fly-by before standing down until late April.
- This flight marks humanity's first trip to the moon in more than 50 years, while private companies including SpaceX and Blue Origin pursue their own lunar missions in the emerging commercial space sector.
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Leaning Left3Leaning Right3Center1Last UpdatedBias Distribution43% Left, 43% Right
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- 43% of the sources lean Left, 43% of the sources lean Right
43% Right
L 43%
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