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By Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette A half century after the end of NASA's Apollo era, the U.S. space agency's long-anticipated bid to return astronauts to

Machine more than 50 years after the nasa mission, looking to get humans back on the moon. >> reporter: its been a long time since nasa had it own candle to light. 11 years since the last launch, 50 years since the last launch of the apollo program but now, apollos twin sister artemis is on the launch pad ready to fly. >> to all of us that gaze up in the moon, dreaming of the day humankind returns to the lunar surface. >> reporter: the rocket sls is years behind schedule, billions over budget bu...

Artemis 1 mission: NASA's Space Launch System and Orion are set to launch from Kennedy Space Center launchpad 39B no earlier than 8:33 a.m. on August 29.

Artemis 1 mission: NASA's Space Launch System and Orion are set to launch from Kennedy Space Center launchpad 39B no earlier than 8:33 a.m. on August 29.

NASA has been preparing for Artemis 1 for years and is now in the home stretch. Heres a brief rundown of the major mission milestones to watch for, both before and after its Aug. 29 launch.

Diali dealing with these tremendous complications, nasa is having to deal with the florida weather. this is august in florida. fortunately no hurricanes are around the corner so they dont have to deal with that right now at least. but we are dealing with a ton of afternoon thunderstorms and we found out we have a strong storm coming through here a few hours ago. and we just learned from a top nasa official that lightning actually struck that launch pad where the artemis is right this minute. the...

Workout, a lightning bolt came very close to the tower. thats what its designed to do, protect that all-important rocket. hopefully we believe the weather will clear up in time for a first attempted launch on monday. space force is expecting 70% favorable conditions by the time this rocket is set to lift off. about an hour ago all the artemis mission managers got together and held a briefing to see if all systems were good to go to proceed with this launch and they said yes. fredericka, as of no...

NASA's Artemis I is scheduled for an uncrewed test flight on Monday morning, bringing humans one step closer to the historic return to the Moon. Read the article to learn more.

NASA hopes the rocket will one day take humans to Mars.

Says that on monday, artemis one is eventually going to help put a person on mars. cnns kristen fisher has the details. >> reporter: well, it has been such a long time since nasa had one of its own rockets designed to carry astronauts into space. its been 11 years since the last space shuttle launch, 50 years since the last launch of the apollo program, but now apollos mythological twin sister artemis is sitting at the launch pad at the kennedy space center just days away from making its first f...