NASA’s moon rocket ready to launch for 1st test flight

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NASA’s new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad ahead of its debut flight. NASA is aiming for an Aug. 29 liftoff for the lunar test flight.


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The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar.


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It took nearly 10 hours for the rocket to make the four-mile trip to the pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida


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No one will be inside the crew capsule atop the rocket, just three mannequins


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The flight is the first moonshot in NASA's Artemis program.


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 The capsule will fly around the moon in a distant orbit for a couple weeks, before heading back for a splashdown in the Pacific.


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The space agency is aiming for a lunar-orbiting flight with with astronauts in two years and a lunar landing by a human  crew as early as 2025.


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Twenty-four astronauts flew to the moon during Apollo, with 12 of them landing on it from 1969 through 1972.


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Good Luck NASA!!!

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NASA’s moon rocket ready to launch for 1st test flight

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NASA’s moon rocket ready to launch for 1st test flight

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