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NASA's Massive Launch Systems' lunar rocket, which carries an unmanned astronaut capsule in space, is scheduled to begin an hour-long crawl to the launch pad on Tuesday night, ahead of the behemoth's debut test flight later this month. .
The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket is scheduled to embark on its first mission to space on August 29. A trip to the moon in NASA's Artemis program is a multi-billion dollar US effort to bring humans back to the moon as a practice for future missions to Mars.
The Space Launch System, which Boeing has been leading development for the past decade, emerges from his assembly building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida around 9:00 p.m. intend to do something. Arrive Tuesday EDT (Wednesday at 0100 GMT) to begin the 4-mile (6 km) trek to the launch pad. It moves less than 1 mph (1.6 km/h) and takes about 11 hours to deploy.
On top of the rocket is his NASA Orion Astronaut Capsule, a pod manufactured by Lockheed Martin. It is designed to separate from a rocket in space, carry a human near the moon, and rendezvous with another spacecraft. Astronauts descend to the moon.
However, in his Aug. 29 mission, called Artemis 1, the Orion capsule was launched unmanned atop a space launch system and orbited the Moon before he was launched 42 days later. Return to Earth to land on the ocean.
If bad weather or minor technical problems delay the launch from his August 29th, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has set backup launch dates for his September 2nd and September 5th. there is Jonathan Otis)
