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Workout, a lightning bolt came very close to the tower. that's what it's 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 now it's looking like this rocket is going to take off on its first test flight on monday morning. i...

Referring to building lunar bases on the moon. part of the reason nasa and the united states want to do that is because china has plans to do that, too. but first, the artemis rocket has to pass this critical test flight. it's going to launch monday morning, if all goes according to plan. the rocket is going to separate from the capsule and the capsule will then head to the moon on its own. it will orbit the moon for about two and a half weeks at times getting within just 60 miles from the surface. then it will return to earth, test out that all important heat shield before splashing down in t...

Clark was returned to his travel carrier after passing through security. and everyone got quite the view there, a birds eye view. the countdown is on for the first spacecraft design to carry humans to the moon in 50 years. it's about to take off, but without humans. the artemis i mission is expected to lift off monday morning. nasa says the uncrewed rocket, its most powerful yet, will eventually help put a person on mars. how are conditions looking for this launch? >> reporter: fredericka, i'll tell what you, over the last few minutes or so the lightning protection system around this rocket ...

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 crew on it. >> within two years, astronauts will ride on top of the rocket in the around crew capsule....

Itself or the crawler that got the rocket to the launch pad. those crawlers were built back in the 1960s, designed to carry the saturn 5 rocket to the launch pad during the pap low program. the difference is back then the united states was in a space race with russia to get to the moon, now nasa's primary competitor in getting astronauts back to the moon is china, they are trying to do the exact same thing. a lot of people wonder, hey, didn't we do this back in the '60s? weren't we doing this back in the '70s? nasa sending astronauts to the moon. the when a. en is yes but they have to do it ag...