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NASA’s SLS Moon rocket rolls out to the launch pad for the first time teslarati.com/nasa-s...

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WordPress 60

date published

Friday March 18th, 2022

author

Monica Pappas

summary

Around noon EST on Thursday, March 17th, the high bay doors of NASA’s vast Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) opened, revealing the first fully assembled Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft. About six hours later, the massive rocket departed the VAB for the first time ever and began a four-mile (6.4 km) journey to […]