A gigantic NASA rocket will start an hours-long overland journey to the launch pad in preparation for its first test flight in orbit later this month.
The 98-meter-tall rocket, which will carry an unmanned capsule into orbit, will make its first flight on August 29 according to NASA.
The eagerly anticipated test flight will be crucial in establishing the condition of NASA’s Artemis programme, which has cost the US billions of dollars in the hope of putting people on the moon’s surface in order to prepare for future Mars expeditions.
The rocket, which Boeing has been constructing for the past ten years, is scheduled to depart NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida’s assembly building to begin its approximately 11-hour, six-kilometer trek to the launch pad.
a speed of 6 km/h.
The astronaut capsule (Orion), developed by Lockheed Martin, is perched atop the rocket. Orion is designed to separate from the rocket in outer space and carry passengers to the lunar edge, where they will connect with a different spacecraft that will transport them to the moon’s surface.
On the other hand, the Orion spacecraft will be launched by a Space Launch System rocket without any people during the Artemis 1 mission on August 29 and will orbit the moon before returning to Earth and landing in the ocean.
A brand-new, enormous rocket is about to be launched into space by NASA.
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