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Time as the 30—year sentence but that still adds like another 25 years to his sentence and he is already looking at time in prison until his late 70s. the us space agency, nasa, is preparing to launch a new rocket to the moon. our science editor, rebecca morelle, has the story. inch by inch, slowly and carefully, nasas new rocket embarks on the first stage of whats going to be a long journey. its heading towards the launch pad at cape canaveral, in florida, and getting into position, ready for...

NASA is aiming for an August 29 liftoff for the lunar test flight. The flight is the first moonshot in US spacy agencys Artemis programme.

It took nearly 10 hours for the 322-foot rocket to make the four-mile trip from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39B. The next time it moves, it will be traveling farther -- and faster -- on a test flight to the moon.

Artemis 2 will launch a crew of astronauts to the moons orbit in a system using the Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and Orion spacecraft.

The Space Launch System rocket could lift-off on its voyage to lunar orbit as early as late August

Artemis 1 will be the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems -- the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket and supporting ground systems

Later now on sunday — overnight into monday. the wind also starting to strengthen through sunday. before we go — ahead of this weeks train and tube strike5, we want to hear from you. were want to find out how the strikes will affect you and your plans. drop us an email to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk. thats it — ill be back in half an hour. hello, this is breakfast withjon kay and sally nugent. coming up on breakfast this morning... its one small step to humans going back to the moon for the f...

NASAs Artemis 1 moon rocket headed back to the launch pad Tuesday night (Aug. 19) to take a step closer to a landmark lunar mission.

Planned for late august but the rollout to the launch pad began last night as you can see here. lets bring in space correspondent kristin fisher. so slow, so exciting this move to the launch pad. >> its so slow, brianna, it takes all night long about ten hours. this vehicle transporting the rocket to the launch pad it can only go about .8 miles per hour, so it may not look like much, but what youre seeing there is about, you know, more than a decade in the making, several billion dollars. it is ...

Jury so they can nail him down. if you want to plead the fifth now, we want to know that because if his story changes between now and the imminent trial, they would have that grand jury testimony which they can read in open court to the jurors. that is the key that they are going after right now. >> all right. thank you so much. nice to see you. president biden takes action on some student loan debt. and a moon rocket rolls out to the launch pad before last joef. last joef. blastoff. blastoff....