NASA’s Mega Moon Rocket Completes First Roll to Launch Pad

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NASAâs SLS Moon Rocket Rolls Out for Launch RehearsalCAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES - MARCH 17: NASAâs SLS moon megarocket topped by the Orion spacecraft rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center on its way to launch complex 39B for a launch rehearsal on March 17, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASAâs Artemis 1 moon mission will send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft into orbit around the moon before a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The test launch is scheduled for no earlier than May 2022, with NASA hoping to send the next astronauts to the moon no earlier than 2025. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

NASAâs SLS Moon Rocket prepares to roll out for launch rehearsalCAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES - MARCH 17: Members of the media photograph NASAâs SLS moon megarocket topped by the Orion spacecraft inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center hours before it rolls out to launch complex 39B for a launch rehearsal on March 17, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASAâs Artemis 1 moon mission will send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft into orbit around the moon before a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The test launch is scheduled for no earlier than May 2022, with NASA hoping to send the next astronauts to the moon by 2025 or later. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

US-SPACE-ROCKET-SLSThe massive Artemis I rocket is ferried atop a mobile launch platform en route to Launch Pad 39B from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida March 17, 2022. - NASA's massive new rocket is poised to make its first journey to a launchpad, ahead of a battery of tests that will clear it to blast off to the Moon this summer. It will leave the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building at 5:00 pm Eastern Time (2100 GMT) and begin its glacially slow, 11-hour crawl on a transporter to the hallowed Launch Complex 39B, four miles (6.5 kilometers) away. (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP) (Photo by GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Artemis I First RolloutCAPE CANAVERAL, FL - MARCH 17: In this handout provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen through the windows of Firing Room One in the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center atop a mobile launcher as it rolls out of High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building for the first time on its way to to Launch Complex 39B March 17, 2022 at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Ahead of NASA's Artemis I flight test, the fully stacked and integrated SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft will undergo a wet dress rehearsal on the launch pad to verify systems and to practice countdown procedures for the first launch. (Photo by Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images)

Artemis I First RolloutCAPE CANAVERAL, FL - MARCH 17: In this handout provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard atop a mobile launcher rolls out of High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building for the first time on its way to to Launch Complex 39B March 17, 2022 at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Ahead of NASA's Artemis I flight test, the fully stacked and integrated SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft will undergo a wet dress rehearsal on the launch pad to verify systems and to practice countdown procedures for the first launch. (Photo by Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images)

US-SPACE-ROCKET-SLSThe massive Artemis I rocket is illuminated at dusk atop a mobile launch platform en route to Launch Pad 39B from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida March 17, 2022. - NASA's massive new rocket is poised to make its first journey to a launchpad, ahead of a battery of tests that will clear it to blast off to the Moon this summer. It will leave the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building at 5:00 pm Eastern Time (2100 GMT) and begin its glacially slow, 11-hour crawl on a transporter to the hallowed Launch Complex 39B, four miles (6.5 kilometers) away. (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP) (Photo by GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images)

US-SPACE-ROCKET-SLSThe massive Artemis I rocket is reflected in the water as it sits atop a mobile launch platform en route to Launch Pad 39B from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida March 17, 2022. - NASA's massive new rocket is poised to make its first journey to a launchpad, ahead of a battery of tests that will clear it to blast off to the Moon this summer. It will leave the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building at 5:00 pm Eastern Time (2100 GMT) and begin its glacially slow, 11-hour crawl on a transporter to the hallowed Launch Complex 39B, four miles (6.5 kilometers) away. (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP) (Photo by GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images)

US-SPACE-ROCKET-SLSThe massive Artemis I rocket rolls past the countdown clock atop a mobile launch platform en route to Launch Pad 39B from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida March 17, 2022. - NASA's massive new rocket is poised to make its first journey to a launchpad, ahead of a battery of tests that will clear it to blast off to the Moon this summer. It will leave the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building at 5:00 pm Eastern Time (2100 GMT) and begin its glacially slow, 11-hour crawl on a transporter to the hallowed Launch Complex 39B, four miles (6.5 kilometers) away. (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP) (Photo by GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images)

US-SPACE-ROCKET-SLSA pair of remote cameras record the movement of the Artemis I rocket atop the mobile launch platform en route to Launch Pad 39B from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida March 17, 2022. - NASA's massive new rocket is poised to make its first journey to a launchpad, ahead of a battery of tests that will clear it to blast off to the Moon this summer. It will leave the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building at 5:00 pm Eastern Time (2100 GMT) and begin its glacially slow, 11-hour crawl on a transporter to the hallowed Launch Complex 39B, four miles (6.5 kilometers) away. (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP) (Photo by GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images)

NASAâs SLS Moon Rocket Rolls Out for Launch RehearsalCAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES - MARCH 17: People watch as NASAâs SLS moon megarocket topped by the Orion spacecraft rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center on its way to launch complex 39B for a launch rehearsal on March 17, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASAâs Artemis 1 moon mission will send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft into orbit around the moon before a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The test launch is scheduled for no earlier than May 2022, with NASA hoping to send the next astronauts to the moon no earlier than 2025. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Artemis I First RolloutCAPE CANAVERAL, FL - MARCH 17: In this handout provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Members of the Artemis I launch team watches out the windows of Firing Room One of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center as NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard atop a mobile launcher rolls out of High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building for the first time to Launch Complex 39B on March 17, 2022, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Ahead of NASA's Artemis I flight test, the fully stacked and integrated SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft will undergo a wet dress rehearsal at Launch Complex 39B to verify systems and practice countdown procedures for the first launch. (Photo by Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images)

Artemis I First RolloutCAPE CANAVERAL, FL - MARCH 18: In this handout provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B, Friday, March 18, 2022, after being rolled out to the launch pad for the first time at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Ahead of NASA's Artemis I flight test, the fully stacked and integrated SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft will undergo a wet dress rehearsal at Launch Complex 39B to verify systems and practice countdown procedures for the first launch. (Photo bu Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via Getty Images)

NASAâs SLS Moon Rocket Readies for Launch RehearsalCAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES - MARCH 18: The SLS moon rocket topped by the Orion spacecraft stands at launch complex 39B following an overnight rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center on March 18, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The NASA Artemis 1 moon mission will send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft into orbit around the moon before a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The test launch is scheduled for no earlier than May 2022, with NASA hoping to send the next astronauts to the moon no earlier than 2025. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)