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The Artemis 1 team has given the go-ahead to proceed with a liftoff attempt on Saturday (Sept. 3) from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A crowd the size of a major American city may turn out to watch NASAs Artemis 1 moon rocket lift off this weekend.

NASA says the weather is looking good for the second attempt to launch its giant Artemis 1 SLS moon rocket and Orion spacecraft.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.Jack Burns, Professor of Astro

NASA is counting down once again to the first-ever liftoff of its Space Launch System rocket for an uncrewed test flight around the moon.

NASA's John Giles, who oversees the 60-year-old crawler-transporter at Kennedy Space Center, hopes his team doesn't need to haul the mega moon rocket back to its hangar.

NASA mission managers say they'll make a second attempt on Saturday to launch the Space Launch System rocket and its Orion spacecraft.

NASA is now targeting Saturday (Sept. 3) for the launch of Artemis 1, whose first liftoff attempt on Monday (Aug. 29) was scuttled by a technical issue.

Astronaut and Marine Colonel Nicole Aunapu Mann will become the first Native American woman in space when NASAs next crew arrives at the International Space Station in October.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA will try again Saturday to launch its new moon rocket on a test flight, after ...