NASA’s Artemis II moon rocket moves to launch pad
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NASA's huge rocket has reached it launch pad after a 11.5-hour journey from the launch pad at 1mph. The rocket was transported upright for four miles, on the back of a Crawler Transporter 2. The rocket measures taller than Big Ben, while the transporter weighs 3 million kilograms and it approximately half the size of a football pitch.
"It’s amazing to think that this thing I have been working on in various capacities for the last eight years is about to send four astronauts around the moon for the first time in a half-century.”
NASA has just crossed a threshold that turns its next Moon flight from an abstract plan into a tangible vehicle, ready to be put through the final, unforgiving tests of human spaceflight. With the Artemis II hardware now coming together and key safety ...