CAPE CANAVERAL - Ground teams at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida prepared on Saturday for a second try at launching US space agency Nasa's towering next-generation moon rocket on its debut flight, hoping to have remedied engineering problems that foiled the initial countdown...
If the countdown clock were halted again, Nasa could reschedule another launch attempt for Monday or Tuesday.
Twelve astronauts walked on the moon during six Apollo missions from 1969 to 1972, the only space flights yet to place humans on the lunar surface. But Apollo, born of the US-Soviet space race during the Cold War, was less science-driven than Artemis.The new moon programme has enlisted commercial partners such as SpaceX and the space agencies of Europe, Canada and Japan to eventually establish a long-term lunar base of operations as a stepping stone to even more ambitious human voyages to Mars.
Billed as the most powerful, complex rocket in the world, the SLS represents the biggest new vertical launch system the US space agency has built since the Saturn V of the Apollo era. About 90 minutes after launch, the rocket's upper stage will thrust Orion out of Earth's orbit on course for a 37-day flight that brings it to within 96km of the lunar surface before sailing 64,374 km beyond the moon and then back to Earth.Although no humans will be aboard, Orion will be carrying a simulated crew of three - one male and two female mannequins - fitted with sensors to measure radiation levels and other stresses that astronauts would experience.
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