NASA readies rocket for launch
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Nasa has rolled its Artemis II rocket to the launch pad in Cape Canaveral ahead of a mission to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than five decades. The US space agency is hoping to use the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to send four astronauts around the Moon in their capsule before returning directly to Earth next month.
NASA is revising its moon-landing plans and reducing Boeing Co.'s role while elevating SpaceX's Starship rocket to propel astronauts to lunar orbit, according to a Bloomberg report
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