US EditionNASA Rolls Out SLS Rocket in Florida as Artemis Launch Date Approaches
The SLS rocket, standing 322 feet tall, was moved to the launch pad for final tests before Artemis 2’s 10-day crewed lunar flyby mission scheduled between February and April.
- On Jan. 17, NASA rolled the SLS and Orion capsule to Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B in a slow, 12-hour, 4-mile transfer marking progress toward the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years.
- The Artemis 2 mission will send three Americans and one Canadian on a 10-day lunar flyby to test systems and hardware, with launch windows from Feb. 6 to April 6 and wet dress rehearsals starting Feb. 2.
- Standing 322 feet tall, the Space Launch System is built by Boeing and Northrop Grumman, weighs around 11 million pounds, and will undergo a wet dress rehearsal fueling it with 700,000 gallons.
- Unless rolled back, the fully integrated SLS/Orion spacecraft will remain at Launch Pad 39B, while engineers must complete a full fueling test expected in early February before confirming a launch date amid five possible launch days.
- NASA's Artemis campaign aims to build a sustained lunar presence and eventual south‑pole settlement, with Artemis 1 revealing heat‑shield damage that required extra testing.
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Between February and April 2026, NASA will carry out its first manned mission beyond the low Earth orbit (LEO) in more than five centuries. The crew of Artemis II is made up of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (comandante), Victor Glover (pilot) and Christina Koch (mission specialist), and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen (mission specialist), who will take off on board their Orion spacecraft on the Space Launch System (SLS) from …
A woman and three men are preparing for a historic journey. What they will experience during their flight to the moon has not been human since "Apollo 13".
NASA’s Moon Rocket Rolls Out at Last
For a space agency that has spent years insisting it was “nearly ready”, Saturday finally delivered the moment NASA has been waiting for. At first light in Florida, NASA’s enormous new Moon rocket slowly crept out of the Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building and headed for the launch pad – a journey that took all day, at walking pace, but marked a huge step forward for human… Source
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