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NASA news: No one was inside the Orion capsule atop the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket at Kennedy Space Center. Instead, three test dummies were strapped in for the lunar-orbiting mission, expected to last six weeks.
In a matter of hours, the $22 billion Space Launch System will lift off from Cape Canaveral in Florida and power an uncrewed Orion spacecraft into orbit for a 1.3 miIlion-mile voyage around the moon.
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NASA is about to light a $4.1 billion candle to launch the first mission in its Artemis program to the moon. The pricey pie has seen ballooning costs and delays in the last decade with slices heading to dozens of aerospace companies across the nation.
A small metal rod joined NASA's new moon-bound rocket for an overnight move to the launch pad, serving as a symbolic marker for the milestone event at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA has changed the rollout date of the Artemis 1 SLS rocket ahead of its historic launch.