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NASA's Orion capsule buzzes the moon in a last step before humans revisit lunar orbit

11:04am November 21, 2022

by The Associated Press

The close approach of 81 miles occurred as the crew capsule and its three wired-up dummies were on the far side of the moon. Astronauts will take Orion for a ride around the moon as early as 2024.

The NASA Artemis 1 rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard moves slowly on an 11 hour journey to a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Thursday, March 17, 2022.

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NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket reaches the launch pad

7:28am March 18, 2022

by Brendan Byrne

NASA's Artemis 1 rocket, the Space Launch System, reached the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39B on Friday. The successor to the Apollo program could one day send humans back to the moon.

In this image provided by NASA, the core stage for the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System rocket is seen at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The four engines fired for a little more than one minute.

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NASA's 8-Minute Rocket Test Shuts Down After 67 Seconds

4:52pm January 17, 2021

by Matthew S. Schwartz

The test was for NASA's Space Launch System, a successor to the retired Space Shuttle program. It takes eight minutes to generate the power needed to get to space, and ultimately to the moon.

Brady Helms, Wayne Kee and John Cosat keep an eye on Hurricane Irma from inside the emergency operations center at the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Riding Out Irma On Florida's Space Coast — And Keeping On Eye On The Spacecraft

10:31pm September 10, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

At the Kennedy Space Center, riding out a hurricane means something a little different. You have to keep the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle capsule happy.