NASA, Artemis
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NASA is providing a 24/7 live feed of the Space Launch System rocket on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The first Artemis moonshot with a crew is now targeted for no earlier than Feb. 8, two days later than planned.
Cold weather in Cape Canaveral prompted administrators to delay a crucial dress rehearsal for the launch. That leaves Artemis II with a narrower window to launch in February.
NASA hopes to launch a new mission to the moon in the coming months
Americans first walked on the moon on July 20, 1969. But before Neil Armstrong made that first step, it took thousands of scientists and engineers to put him there, and a whole bunch of them were
Video shows the NASA WB-57 plane touching down with a jolt, its wings bouncing as yellow fire and white smoke bursts from beneath it.
The rollout on Saturday, Jan. 17, of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is a crucial step signaling that NASA is in the final stretches to get its first crewed lunar mission in five decades off the ground. That mission, known as Artemis 2, will send three Americans and one Canadian on a 10-day trip around the moon.