NASA will send a Space Launch System rocket to the launch pad this week, and the launch is scheduled for Nov. 14

By: Maksim Panasovskiy | 31.10.2022, 01:13
NASA will send a Space Launch System rocket to the launch pad this week, and the launch is scheduled for Nov. 14
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will move the Space Launch System lunar rocket later this week.

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The federal agency will try again to launch a rocket into space in two weeks. NASA will send the lunar rocket to the launch pad on Nov. 4. It is now in a hangar where it had to be stowed along with the Orion spacecraft because of a storm in Florida.

The launch is scheduled for Nov. 14 at 7:07 p.m. (EET). It will have a 1 hour and 7 minute window. If all goes well, the Space Launch System rocket will send the Orion spacecraft to space as part of the Artemis 1 lunar mission. It will orbit the moon in about 25 days and return to Earth.

NASA has also set two backup dates for the launch -- Nov. 16 at 8:07 a.m. (EET) and Nov. 19 at 8:45 a.m. (EET). In both cases, the duration of the window will be two hours.

Source: NASA