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NASA's Giant New Moon Rocket Is Finally on Launch Pad

NASA’s Artemis II rocket and spacecraft reach launch pad as lift-off window inches closer

The crawler carried the Moon-bound rocket and spacecraft slowly towards the pad at a maximum speed of just 0.82 miles per hour. The rocket made a scheduled pause outside the VAB’s high-bay doors for the teams to reposition the crew access arm.

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NASA’s Moon-bound Artemis II rocket arrived at launch pad in Florida

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NASA’s mega moon rocket has arrived at the launchpad. What’s next?

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LIVE: NASA’s Artemis II rockets move to Launch Pad 39B | Countdown begins for the next Moon mission

NASA’s Artemis II mission is one step closer to the Moon as the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft roll out to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center.

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NASA's Artemis II Mega Rocket Arrives At Launch Pad For Historic Moon Mission: What Happens Next?

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Nasa's mega Moon rocket arrives at launch pad for Artemis II mission

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NASA’s new moon rocket moves to the pad ahead of astronaut launch as early as February

Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and Christina Koch — longtime NASA astronauts with spaceflight experience — will be joined on the 10-day mission by Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, a former fighter pilo...

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Nasa moon rocket creeps to its launchpad in preparation for astronaut flight

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NASA delivers 11MILLION lbs rocket to launch pad as countdown to historic moon mission begins

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SLS/Orion rolls to pad for Artemis 2

NASA’s SLS and Orion rolled to the launch pad for the Artemis 2 mission Jan. 17, though uncertainty remains about when the mission will be ready to launch.

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Is Orion’s heat shield really safe? New NASA chief conducts final review on eve of flight.

WASHINGTON, DC—This week, NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, said he has “full confidence” in the space agency’s plans to use the existing heat shield to protect the Orion spacecraft during its upcoming lunar mission.

4 astronauts will soon take an unprecedented path to the moon. But why aren’t they landing?

NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon. Here’s why.

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NASA's Orion spacecraft snaps a selfie on its journey beyond the far side of the moon

NASA released a selfie taken by the Orion capsule and close-up photos of the moon's crater-marked landscape as the spacecraft continues on the Artemis 1 mission, a 25-and-a-half day journey that will take it more than 40,000 miles beyond the far side of ...