The takeoff of NASA’s formidable Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is presently being planned for February next year.
The Space Launch System, which has been stacked with Orion’s crew capsule, stands at the space center in Florida at 332 meters tall.
Space Launch System will begin the next phase of deep-space activities on and surrounding the moon, namely Artemis operations. It was scheduled to take off in November, but this has been delayed.
Space.com reported on Friday’s news conference that the stacked racket and crew capsule would run into Launch Pad 398 in December for verification and West Dress repetitions in January before switching back to even more checkouts and moving back to the pad, as per NASA’s Tom Whitmeyer.
“With stacking and integration of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft complete, we’re getting closer and closer to embarking on a new era of human deep space exploration,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “Thanks to the team’s hard work designing, manufacturing, testing, and now completing assembly of NASA’s new rocket and spacecraft, we’re in the home stretch of preparations for the first launch on the Artemis I mission, paving the way to explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond for many years to come,” wrote NASA.
NASA will settle on the moon’s face the very first woman and the first person of color, pave the groundwork for an extended lunar settlement and act as a starting point on its approach to Mars through Artemis’ operations.
NASA moon missions
The Apollo program was a national program of the United States that landed men on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. The program resulted in the United States’ first astronaut to walk on the Moon’s surface.
The Apollo program was a considerable technological and scientific success. It ultimately resulted in the first landing on the Moon by humans.
