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Moon. our sights are set clearly on mars. >> reporter: but first, it has to pass this uncrewed test flight with only mannequins on board. artemis won the launch in florida and mission control is at the johnson space center in houston, texas. >> this is apollo control, houston. >> reporter: the same place that controlled every apollo and shuttle mission. >> this is where it happens as far as human space flight. >> reporter: rick is in charge of it all as lead flight director. they have been train...

He and his team have been training for this for years. >> flight day is when it really gets real. >> reporter: after launch the sls rocket will separate from the orion crew capsule on top. orion will fly a quarter million miles to the moon and then go 40,000 miles beyond it. farther than any spacecraft designed to carry humans has ever flown. >> were going to swing by the moon and when we swing by it on the way there, well be 60 miles off the surface. it will be incredible. the pictures we get a...

And 50 years, and artemis is different. flanked with two boosters, it will be 15% more powerful than the monster saturn five rocket that carried apollo astronauts to the moon. this morning, all systems are a go for a monday morning launch, and an uncrewed 40-day test flight to orbit the moon. >> we are pushing the vehicle to its limits, really stressing it, to get ready for crew. >> we mitigate the risk as far as we can, now it is time to get to launch, so we get that data that we need to put cr...

For crew. we have mitigated the risk as far as we can and now its our time to get to launch so that we get that data that we need to put crew on it. >> reporter: within two years, astronauts will ride on top of the rocket in the orion crew capsule. the entire artemis/orion stack looks something like apollo on steroids, with some critical upgrades for future astronauts. orion is a lot bigger than apollo. instead of three astronauts, four astronauts fit in these chairs here. they have a retractabl...

Its colossal size means its really heavy, so it needs lots of power. it has four engines, but even those arent enough to get this rocket off the ground, so what it also needs are these two huge boosters. they all use fuel, and the biggest part, called the core stage, is full of fuel. in fact, fuel makes up 90% of the weight of this entire rocket. now, you might be wondering where the astronauts will go. well, its here, near the top, in the orion crew capsule. but not this time. this is a test fl...

So what it also needs are these two huge boosters. they all use fuel, and the biggest part, called the core stage, is full of fuel. in fact, fuel makes up 90% of the weight of this entire rocket. now, you might be wondering where the astronauts will go. well, its here, near the top, in the orion crew capsule. but not this time — this is a test flight, so there are no people on board. the time has come to put the space launch system to the test. as it readies for blast—off from cape canaveral...

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And nasas huge rocket. its called the space launch system, or sls for short, and its the most powerful rocket ever built by the us space agency. it stands nearly 100 metres — about 320 feet — tall, roughly the same height as a 32—storey building. its colossal size means its really heavy, so it needs lots of power. it has four engines, but even those arent enough to get this rocket off the ground, so what it also needs are these two huge boosters. they all use fuel, and the biggest part, ca...

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Where the astronauts will go. well, its here, near the top, in the orion crew capsule. but not this time. this is a test flight, so there are no people onboard. the time has come to put the space launch system to the test. as it readies for blast off from cape canaveral in florida on launch pad 39b, the same one used for apollo, it will be nervewracking. 3, 2, 1... the rocket thunders away from the earth, eventually reaching speeds of nearly 25,000 miles, or a0,000 kilometres, an hour. as each c...