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The US space agency (NASA) announced today that it is ready to launch the historic mission (Artemis 1) to the moon from Florida next Monday.
Reuters quoted NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana as saying at a press briefing: "NASA aims to achieve a giant leap in its renewed ambitions for the Moon with the first scheduled launch next Monday in Florida of the Next Generation Large Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion capsule. Designed to carry crew members.
The compact Orion spacecraft is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, send the unmanned capsule around the moon and return to Earth on a six-week test flight called Artemis 1.
The flight aims to put the Space Launch System vehicle, the world's most complex and powerful rocket vehicle, to a rigorous stress test of its systems during an actual flight before it is considered ready to transport astronauts.
The SLS represents the largest new vertical launch system NASA has built since the Satron 5 rockets launched during the Apollo program in the 1960s and 1970s, and NASA's Artemis program aims to return astronauts to the Moon as early as 2025 and establish a long-term lunar colony as a springboard for future flights. More ambitious send people to Mars.
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