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Artemis I rocket reaches launch pad
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
|May 2022
Rocket bound for the Moon set for launch rehearsal
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NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, topped with the Orion spacecraft, which together form the Artemis I mission, finally made it to the launch pad on 18 March. The 6.4km journey from the building where it was assembled to launch pad 39B took the 98m-high rocket 10 hours and 28 minutes.
This story is from the May 2022 edition of BBC Sky at Night Magazine.
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