Excitement builds as NASA’s moon rocket readies for liftoff
SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Excitement builds as NASA’s moon rocket readies for liftoff Tens of thousands of spectators gather in Cape Canaveral for launch of NASA’s Artemis mission to return humans to the moon. ADVERTISEMENT NASA’s most powerful rocket yet is set to blast off on its debut test flight, kicking off the United States space agency’s mission to take humans back to the moon and eventually to Mars. ADVERTISEMENT Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, the Artemis mission will get underway with the blast off of the unmanned Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at 8:33am (12:33 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT Tens of thousands of people, including US Vice President Kamala Harris, are expected to watch the launch, with hotels around Cape Canaveral booked out for the event. ADVERTISEMENT CLICK