January 18, 2026 2:06 PM
NASA rolls giant SLS rocket to launchpad for second Artemis moon mission
NASA rolled its massive Space Launch System rocket toward its launchpad in Florida on Saturday, kicking off a final phase of preparations for the agency's Artemis II mission that is poised to send four astronauts around the moon and back as soon as next month. Traveling just one mile (1.6 km) per hour on its mobile launch platform, the 322-foot-tall (98 m) SLS emerged at sunrise from the giant garage doors of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center for a crawl to its launch...