Nasa's giant new SLS Moon rocket makes its debut
Source: BBC
Nasa's giant new SLS Moon rocket makes its debut
Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent
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18 March 2022
The American space agency is rolling out its new giant Moon rocket for the first time.
The vehicle, known as the Space Launch System (SLS), is being taken to the pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to conduct a dummy countdown.
If that goes well, the rocket will be declared ready for a mission in which it will send an uncrewed test capsule around the Moon.
This could happen in the next couple of months.
Ultimately, it's hoped astronauts would climb aboard later SLS rockets to return to the Moon's surface some time in the second half of this decade.
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It's the most powerful rocket ever developed by the US space agency (Reuters)
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