CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA mentioned Thursday it has completed testing its large moon rocket and can transfer it again to the launch pad in late August.
A date for the primary flight might be set after a leak that popped up throughout a gown rehearsal is fastened, the house company mentioned.
Earlier this week, NASA fueled the 30-story Area Launch System rocket for the primary time and pressed forward with a essential countdown take a look at regardless of a gasoline line leak. Earlier makes an attempt had been foiled by technical points.
Nobody might be on board the debut launch that can hurl the Orion crew capsule atop the rocket to the moon and again. The preliminary flight might be adopted by astronauts in 2024, looping across the moon and again. The third mission would try to land astronauts on the moon no sooner than 2025, greater than a half-century after NASA’s Apollo moonshots.
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