NASA's gigantic Space Launch System lunar rocket, with an unmanned astronaut capsule on top, will make an hour-long crawl to the launch pad on Tuesday night. is scheduled to start. this month.
The 98-meter-tall rocket is scheduled to embark on its first mission to space on August 29th. This will be a very significant demonstration trip to the Moon for NASA's Artemis program. , a US multi-billion dollar effort to bring humans back to the moon as practice for future missions to Mars.
The Space Launch System, which Boeing has been leading the way in development over the past decade, will emerge from his assembly building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida around 9:00 p.m. Arrive Tuesday EDT (Wednesday at 0100 GMT) to begin the 6km long trek to the launch pad. It moves less than 1.6 km/h and takes about 11 hours to deploy.
On top of the rocket is NASA's Orion Astronaut Capsule, a pod built by Lockheed Martin LMT.N. It is designed to separate from the rocket in space, bring humans closer to the moon, and rendezvous with another spacecraft that will drop astronauts onto the moon's surface.
However, on 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 sent 42 days later. Return to Earth to land in the ocean.
If bad weather or minor technical problems delay the launch from his August 29th, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will set backup launch dates for his September 2nd and September 5th. I'm here.
