NASA will roll out its massive "mega moon rocket" to a launch pad Thursday afternoon for key tests as the space agency plots its return to the lunar surface for the first time in 50 years.
The 322-foot-tall stack designed to carry out NASA's uncrewed Artemis I mission around the moon and back to Earth is made up of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft that sit atop of a mobile launcher.
The massive stack will begin the four-mile journey from its assembly building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida Thursday to launch pad 39B, a process NASA says is expected to take somewhere between six and 12 hours to complete.
NASA plans to put humans on the moon by 2025, which would mark the first time astronauts set foot on the lunar surface since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The space agency plans to land the first woman and first person of color on the moon, among other astronauts.
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