NASA Artemis II Craft Rollout Ahead of Lunar Orbit Mission
- Artemis II will send a crew of four astronauts on a journey around the moon as the United States prepares to send American astronauts to the...
- NASA on Saturday rolled out the spacecraft that will take Americans on a journey around the moon, as part of the agency's Artemis II mission.
- The integrated SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft - which will hold the four astronauts flying the mission - began its hours-long journey from the Vehicle...
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Artemis II will send a crew of four astronauts on a journey around the moon as the United States prepares to send American astronauts to the moon for the first time in more than five decades.
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NASA on Saturday rolled out the spacecraft that will take Americans on a journey around the moon, as part of the agency’s Artemis II mission.
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The integrated SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft – which will hold the four astronauts flying the mission – began its hours-long journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B around 9 a.m. ET.
The agency saeid the four mile trek to ferry the 11 million-lb rocket stack could take up to 12 hours.
“The architecture you see behind us here with SLS and the Orion spacecraft is just the beginning,” NASA director Jared Isaacman told reporters at the event.