NASA, Artemis
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The Artemis II rocket and spacecraft rolled out from the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B on Saturday. The 11-million-pound Artemis II SLS rocket and Orion Spacecraft had to move just four miles, but according to NASA, the process took around 12 hours to complete, because it could only move at a 1 mph pace.
NASA will roll out a costly rocket to the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, a milestone in a lunar space race between the US and China.
A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN orbiter.
NASA lost contact with the MAVEN probe in Mars orbit, and teams are working to reestablish communications after an unexpected anomaly.