WATCH - NASA rolls out giant moon Space Launch System ahead of August 29 launch

NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket has rolled out to the launch pad on Tuesday night. Notably, engineers and technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida had completed the final testing and checkouts of the Artemis I Moon rocket on Monday ahead of rolling to Launch Pad 39B.

The Artemis I Moon rocket will be rolled out at around 9 pm EDT ahead of the August 29 launch. The 322-foot-tall uncrewed rocket is scheduled to embark on its first mission to space on August 29. On Monday, NASA said, "The crawler-transporter will roll inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and under the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft later today. Teams are currently working to prepare the integrated stack for rollout."

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Testing of the flight termination system was completed over the weekend. It marked the final major activity prior to closing out the rocket. A live stream of the rollout has begun at 3 pm EDT. Viewers can catch the live streaming online on the official YouTube channel of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center - KSC Newsroom.

Here is the live streaming link:

The Space Launch System will roughly take around 11 hours to reach its launchpad. NASA's Orion astronaut capsule is designed to separate from the rocket in space carrying humans to the lunar surface. However, for the August 29 mission, Artemis 1, the Orion capsule will launch atop the Space Launch System, without any humans. It will orbit around the moon and will return to Earth almost after 42 days. Artemis I mission is the first in a series of planned launches which aimed at returning humans to the moon.