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Artemis II mission will take 4 astronauts on a trip around the moon. The vehicle that will send them there? A massive NASA Space Launch System rocket.
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Artemis II: NASA's first crewed mission to the moon since 1972
NASA's Artemis II mission will send a crew of four astronauts back to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, although they will not land on the lunar surface yet.
The agency has outlined a three-phase plan for lunar infrastructure and says the effort will serve as a proving ground for future missions to Mars.
Just as with NASA's missions, it's clear that giant leaps can come from networks that work seamlessly together.
NASA has rolled the Artemis 2 Space Launch System rocket back to Launch Complex-39B. SLS spend nearly a month inside the Vehicle Assembly Building for maintenance after an initial rollout to the pad in January,
NASA's Artemis missions are poised to make history, but moving the Artemis II rocket takes exceptionally wrong. In fact history is actually partially to blame.
NASA is cancelling plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead use its components to construct a $20 billion base on the moon's surface over the next seven years, its new chief Jared Isaacman said on Tuesday.