The gigantic moon rocket aiming to write another page in the history of space travel took off while carrying three test dummies aboard, bringing the US one step closer to reintroducing people to the surface of the moon for the very first time since the Apollo mission ended half of century ago. If all goes smoothly during the mission, the rocket will push an unmanned crew capsule into a broad lunar orbit and the capsule will touch down Earth by water landing in the Pacific, early December.
“We have a priority-one mission in play right now. We had the rocket do its job and deliver the spacecraft to the point of translunar injection,” declared Mike Sarafin, the manager of NASA Artemis 1…
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