Jan. 17 (UPI) -- NASA early Saturday morning started the slow roll of the 322-foot-tall Artemis II rocket from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B for final preparations before its launch to the moon.
The rocket -- now fully assembled with the Orion spacecraft atop the Space Launch System rocket -- started it's 1-mile-per-hour journey from the VAB to the launch pad on the crawler-transporter 2 around 7:00 a.m.
The 11-million-pound stack's four-mile trip could take up to 12 hours to complete, NASA said earlier this week.
Once on the pad, NASA and the four-astronaut crew will run tests on SLS, most significantly a wet dress rehearsal that includes fully fueling and unfueling the rocket, in the run up its launch window opening on Feb. 6.
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