NASA is planning to launch its new Space Launch System, with the Orion capsule designed to host astronauts perched atop the rocket, on August 29.
It would be a major first step in the space agency’s efforts to get humans back to the surface of the Moon for the first time since 1972.
The SLS mega rocket plans to fly the crew capsule all the way around the Moon – farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown – before heading back for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Here are some of the cool and colorful cargo slated to make the journey to the Moon and back.
Source : Science Alert
CNBC’s Michael Sheetz joins Kayla Tausche on ‘The News with Shepard Smith’ to report that NASA is preparing to roll out the most powerful rocket the agency has ever built and it could pave the way for astronauts to once again walk on the moon.
