As it started getting ready for its first crewed voyage to the Moon in almost 50 years, NASA unveiled its massive SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft on Saturday.
The US space agency will be able to start a series of tests for the Artemis 2 mission, which might launch as early as February 6, thanks to the maneuver, which could take up to 12 hours.
The massive orange and white Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft were painstakingly transported four miles (6.5 kilometers) to Launch Pad 39B from the Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida.
Three Americans and one Canadian will travel to the Moon somewhere between February 6 and the end of April if all the tests are successful; instead of landing, they will fly around Earth’s satellite.
“We’re making history,” John Honeycutt, chair of the Artemis 2 mission management team, said at a press conference on Friday. The mission, which would last roughly ten days, would be a significant step toward Americans landing on the moon once more, a goal declared by President Donald Trump in his first term.
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