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>> counting down. >> the art miss rocket is finally on the launch pad ready to fly for the first time on monday. >> it's no longer the apollo generation. it's the artemis generation and that brings new discoveries. >> i'm pamela brown in washington. you're live in the cnn "newsroom." >> well, it's nasa's long overdue return to the moon, and t-minus just a few hours until hopefully launchtime of the u.s. space agency's most powerful rocket. the program is called artemis, the first phase blasting off in the morning, unmanned and setting the stage for a manned landing on the lunar surfa...

To us, so as we've pointed out earlier, a lot of excitement. ma'am, back to you. >> a lot for good reason. rachel crane, thanks so much. earlier this evening, i spoke with retired nasa astronaut leroy chou. >> well, it's always exciting when there's a launch of a new vehicle, and this has been a long time coming this. rocket actually has more thrust, generates more thrust at liftoff than the saturn 5 moon rockets though it carries a little less payload into orbit. nonetheless, it's an exciting thing, a long time coming. the first iteration of this program, if you will, was around 2004, 2005,...