| The world’s most powerful rocket – NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) – is being prepared for its first flight. This launch will be the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 that a human-rated exploration rocket and spacecraft have launched to the Moon. |
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/nasas-artemis-1-rocket-prepares-for-first-test-flight/
| The Artemis missions will return American astronauts to the moon and eventually Mars. This initial moonshot test will be a historic step in realizing these goals. |
| For each of these journeys, from the Earth to the Moon and beyond, SLS is the vehicle that will take human spaceflight into the next generation of deep space exploration. |