CAPE CANAVERAL, USA: NASA’s giant new moon rocket headed to the launch pad Saturday in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century. The out-and-back trip could blast off as early as February. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket began its 1 mph (1.6 kph) creep from Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building at daybreak. The four-mile (six-kilometer) trek could take until nightfall. Thousands of space center workers and their families gathered in the predawn chill to witness the long-awaited event, delayed for years.

NASA says it is preparing to roll its 322-foot-tall Space Launch System rocket to the launchpad in Florida.

Artemis II mission could launch on 6 February, sending astronauts on a 685,000-mile journey

CAPE CANAVERAL, USA: NASA’s giant new moon rocket headed to the launch pad Saturday in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century. The…

NASA early Saturday started the slow roll of the Artemis II rocket to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final preparations before its mission to explore the…

Final preparations now get underway for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years.

First journey around moon with astronauts in more than 50 years could blast off in February