NASA aims to take a giant leap forward in its renewed lunar ambitions with the launch set for Monday of its next-generation mega-rocket, the Space Launch System.
abc.net.au/news/nasa-poised-for-historic-artemis-i-lunar-launch-from-florida/101380290A half century after the end of NASA's Apollo era, the US space agency's long-anticipated bid to return astronauts to the Moon's surface remains at least three years away, with much of the necessary hardware still on the drawing board.
The combined SLS-Orion spacecraft is due for blast-off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, sending the uncrewed capsule around the Moon and back to Earth on a six-week test flight called Artemis I. More than a decade in development with years of delays and billions of dollars in cost overruns, the SLS-Orion spacecraft so far has cost NASA at least $US37 billion , including design, construction, testing and ground facilities.
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