NASA's moon rocket returns to launch pad

 NASA's moon rocket returns to launch pad

 NASA's moon rocket returns to launch pad

NASA's big moon rocket is hitting the launch pad for the third time, and it's actually scheduled to launch to the moon.

For once, NASA is ahead of schedule.

For the past month and a half, the Space Launch System rocket, the most powerful since the Saturn V that carried astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, Parked in a building at the Kennedy Space Center in FloridaThere, technicians prepare the rocket for its first flight, which could happen in two weeks.



The launch from the building to the launch pad was scheduled for Thursday, but NASA announced Monday that the move had been moved to Tuesday night. All of this led to the launch of NASA's Artemis I mission, an unmodified test of the giant rocket and Orion spacecraft that would one day house astronauts.

What happens during launch? I can see?
It's about 4.2 miles from NASA's massive Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad, known as Launch Complex 39B. The platform was first used by NASA during the Apollo program in the 1960s. The rocket and launch tower will be located on a giant vehicle NASA calls a crawler carrier. It is the same vehicle that took the Saturn V to the moon landing, but it has been renewed and improved.

The tracker, in fact, crawled. Larger than a baseball field and capable of carrying up to 18 million pounds, it will travel up to 1 mile per hour along a gravel road at the launch site.The trip will last about 10 hours.

Around 10 p.m., the trackers and rockets began to move. Eastern Time. Due to weather in the area, including lightning, traffic movement was delayed by approximately one hour.

NASA is streaming the launch on one of its YouTube channels from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning. , and NASASpaceflight, an independent online space news outlet, provides a broadcast with outside commentary. You can also watch it in the embedded video player above.