All systems go for Artemis 1 mission to Moon

Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2022

Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, the Artemis program is poised to take up the baton of lunar exploration with a test launch on Monday of NASA's most powerful rocket ever. The goal is to return humans to the Moon for the first time since the last Apollo mission in 1972 - and eventually to Mars. The 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is scheduled to blast off a