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NASA has finished a crucial step toward getting its Artemis II moon mission off the ground, and is now targeting early April to send four astronauts on an unprecedented path.
An unannounced test of NASA's towering Space Launch System rocket uncovered another issue with the vehicle meant to soon launch astronauts on a mission around the moon. Ground crews at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida partially fueled the 322-foot ...
The 4-mi. trek from the Vehicle Assembly Building to LC-38B was expected to begin at 8 p.m. and could take up to 12 hr. NASA said a rollout on either March 19 or March 20 would preserve the possibility of launching as early as April 1. However, “teams continue to keep an eye on the weather forecasts,” NASA noted in a mission status update.