NASA’s New Moon Rocket Moves To The Pad Ahead Of Astronaut Launch As Early As February

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s giant new moon rocket moved to the launch pad Saturday in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century.

NASA's new moon rocket moves to the pad ahead of astronaut launch as early as February

NASA's giant new moon rocket is finally at the launch pad. The 322-foot Space Launch System rocket began its 1-mph creep from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building on Saturday morning.

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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 4-mile (6-kilometer) trek took until nightfall.

Thousands of space center workers and their families gathered in the predawn chill to witness the long-awaited event, delayed for years. They huddled together ahead of the Space Launch System rocket’s exit from the building, built in the 1960s to accommodate the Saturn V rockets that sent 24 astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program. The cheering crowd was led by NASA’s new administrator Jared Isaacman and all four astronauts assigned to the mission.

The first Lunar Orbital Mission was in December 1968. Apollo 8 was crewed by Frank Borman (Commander) Jim Lovell (Command Module Pilot) and William Anders (Lunar Module Pilot). Dad, along with both of my sisters and I watched the live feed from Houston Space Flight Center. What a night.

 

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s giant new moon rocket moved to the launch pad Saturday in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century.

NASA's new moon rocket moves to the pad ahead of astronaut launch as early as February

NASA's giant new moon rocket is finally at the launch pad. The 322-foot Space Launch System rocket began its 1-mph creep from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building on Saturday morning.

apnews.com

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 4-mile (6-kilometer) trek took until nightfall.

Thousands of space center workers and their families gathered in the predawn chill to witness the long-awaited event, delayed for years. They huddled together ahead of the Space Launch System rocket’s exit from the building, built in the 1960s to accommodate the Saturn V rockets that sent 24 astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program. The cheering crowd was led by NASA’s new administrator Jared Isaacman and all four astronauts assigned to the mission.

The first Lunar Orbital Mission was in December 1968. Apollo 8 was crewed by Frank Borman (Commander) Jim Lovell (Command Module Pilot) and William Anders (Lunar Module Pilot). Dad, along with both of my sisters and I watched the live feed from Houston Space Flight Center. What a night.

I have written these many times. The first four missions are four billion dollars a launch. This system works and is a white elephant. And this does not include a lunar module yet. The planning may change and originally due to price there was one launch a year designed because of it. A moon base cannot be built on this. If the NASA budget was 20 billion dollars a year, we may need a hundred billion dollars a year. We are building a lunar gateway station in part as that is cheaper to send some missions to there then landing on the moon. The people will be fooled with that.