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The most powerful rocket nasa has ever built is ready for liftoff. the rocket is simply enormous. and its only when youre standing here that you really get a sense of its size. and this is the last chance well see it up close. the launch pad is closing and fuelling is about to begin. because in just a few hours time, this will be blasting off. the first step in our return to the moon for 50 years. we talk about moonshots as things that humans can do when we put our differences aside and we focus...

We have sent something like that, a human rated spacecraft to the moon. for its maiden launch, the rocket will push a capsule called 0rion into deep space, where it will go into orbit around the moon before it returns to earth. no astronauts will be on board this time. this is a test flight. with such new technology, there are lots of things that could go wrong. we have done so much testing on this rocket. weve been through integrated testing. weve tested everything from the smallest material to...

Here that you really get a sense of its size. and this is the last chance well see it up close. the launch pad is closing and fuelling is about to begin. because in just a few hours�* time, this will be blasting off. the first step in our return to the moon for 50 years. we talk about moonshots as things that humans can do when we put our differences aside and we focus on the mission and do great things together. well, now were going to have our own moonshot, right? and so this is our generati...

To this launch. you know, ever since we rolled out to the pad last week, you can feel the excitement, the energy increase, and its really, really palpable. after a 50—year gap, were heading back to the moon, and it all starts here with the artemis mission 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—...