NASA’s new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday (17th) in advance of its debut flight in less than two weeks.
The 98-metre (322-foot) rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar late Tuesday night, drawing crowds of Kennedy Space Center workers. Moving at less than 1.6kph (1mph), it took nearly 10 hours for the massive rocket to make the four-mile trip to the pad, pulling up at sunrise Wednesday.
Engineers and technicians have been busy with checkouts and final testing of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,USA.
The rocket stack made a couple of trips to the launchpad in March and June for the wet dress rehearsal, a test that simulated every step of launch without liftoff.
NASA is aiming for an August 29 liftoff for the lunar test flight. No one will be inside the crew capsule, just three mannequins — test dummies filled with sensors to measure radiation and vibration.
The Artemis team is targeting its first two-hour launch window from 8:33 a.m. ET to 10:33 a.m. (Reported by CNN)
There are backup launch windows on September 2 and September 5.
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