Prasannkumar 
The American space department Nasa is rolling out its giant new Moon rocket to prepare it for a maiden flight.
Known as the Space Launch System( SLS), the vehicle is being taken to Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a lift-off listed for 29 August.
The debut outing is a test with no crew aboard, but future operations will send astronauts back to the lunar surface for the first time in over 50 years.
The near 100m-tall( 328ft) SLS is riding an immense tractor to the pad.
It started moving from its gathering building at Kennedy late on Tuesday evening, local time, but with a cruising speed of just over 1km/ h( under 1mph), it could take 8- 10 hours to complete the the6.7 km(4.2 miles) journey.
This is a crucial moment for Nasa, which will celebrate in December the half-century anniversary of Apollo 17, the very last human landing on the Moon.
The agency has pledged to return with its new Artemis program, using technology that befits the modern period( Artemis was Greek god Apollo’s twin sister and goddess of the Moon).
Nasa sees a return to the Moon as a way to prepare to go to Mars with astronauts eventually in the 2030s or soon after.
The SLS will have 15 more thrusts off the pad than Apollo’s Saturn V rockets. This extra power, combined with further advancements, will allow the vehicle to not only send astronauts far beyond Earth but, additionally, so much equipment and cargo that those crews could stay away for extended periods.
The crew capsule, also, is a step up in capability. Called Orion, it’s much more spacious, being a meter wider, at 5m(16.5 ft), than the eventful command modules of the 1960s and 70s.
To all of us that gaze up at the Moon, dreaming of the day humankind returns to the lunar surface- folks, we are here! We’re going back. And that journey, our journey, begins with Artemis 1, said Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson.
The first crewed launch, Artemis 2, is two years from now in 2024. We are hoping that the first landing, Artemis 3, will be in 2025.
Nasa has promised that this third assignment will witness the first woman put her boots down on the Moon’s surface.
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