This is the fully-assembled NASA Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion capsule, seen outside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center for the first time on March 17, 2022. Here the rocket is being transported to Launch Complex 39B, where it will undergo tests and a "wet dress rehearsal" in advance of the Artemis 1 mission.

For its inaugural launch, currently scheduled for mid-2022, the SLS will send the Orion capsule on a journey around the Moon and back.

The 4-mile journey to the pad took approximately 11-hours; The aptly named Crawler Transporter crawls along at about .8mph (1.28kph).

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NASA’s Space Launch System standing tall at LC-39B, scheduled to send the Orion spacecraft to the Moon Monday, August 29. The 2-hour launch window for the #Artemis I mission opens at 8:33am (EDT)

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Thursday (8/25) sunset captured from Kennedy Space Center’s LC-39B as NASA’s Space Launch System (“SLS”) and the Orion spacecraft await the scheduled 8/29 launch of the #Artemis1 mission. The first launch attempt would end in a scrub. The next attempt is scheduled for Saturday 9/3.
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This is the fully-assembled NASA Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion capsule, seen outside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center for the first time on March 17, 2022. Here the rocket is being transported to Launch Complex 39B, where it will undergo tests and a "wet dress rehearsal" in advance of the Artemis 1 mission.

For its inaugural launch, currently scheduled for mid-2022, the SLS will send the Orion capsule on a journey around the Moon and back.

The 4-mile journey to the pad took approximately 11-hours; The aptly named Crawler Transporter crawls along at about .8mph (1.28kph).

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At 10pm (ET), August 16, the NASA-built SLS rocket & Orion began its (hopefully) final trip from the Vehicle Assembly Building to LC-39B.
Shortly after rollout began, Orion's destination, the Moon, made a dramatic appearance. It was spectacular.

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