NASA's Artemis 1 megarocket rolls back to launch pad for moon mission

NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket headed back to the launch pad Tuesday night (Aug. 19)

Artemis 1 is an uncrewed test flight of the huge Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and its Orion spacecraft

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The crawler carrying the Artemis 1 hardware must make a journey to Launch Pad 39B at roughly 1 to 2 miles an hour (1.6 to 3.2 km/h).

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While the rollout is running, you can watch it live on NASA's website(opens in new tab), NASA TV and the NASA app

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NASA's webcast began at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT

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NASA hopes to send an Artemis 2 mission to orbit the moon, with people on board,

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as soon as 2024 with a landing mission, Artemis 3, set for 2025.

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