NASA's giant moon rocket
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NASA's Artemis II mission will launch with SLS rocket engines that have flown multiple times on past space shuttle missions. Here's their story.
NASA's powerful Launch Abort System, designed to outrun an exploding rocket, is the result of years of work from scientists and engineers across the country, including in Southern California's Mojave Desert.
For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are preparing to travel beyond low-Earth orbit and Artemis II is the mission that gets us there. This will be NASA’s first crewed test flight in its return-to-the-Moon program.
As NASA prepares for its long-awaited return of crewed launches beyond low Earth orbit with Artemis II, the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans has served as America’s premier rocket factory for more than six decades,