NASA takes Artemis II rocket to launch pad
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The Moonward rollout that turns Artemis II into a full-system test
What does it actually take to move a Moon rocket from “assembled” to “ready to carry people”? The answer at Kennedy Space Center in Florida has been to appear deliberately slow and obvious: a 98m-tall Space Launch System,
Wish them well. Next month, four astronauts are expected to board space capsule Orion, blast off on a rocket known as the Space Launch System, and exit low-Earth orbit for the first time since 1972, en route to a 10-day flyby of the moon.