NASA will send its SLS rocket and Orion capsule to the launchpad for the first time on Thursday, giving us our first proper look at the fully stacked vehicle.
NASA will send its new SLS rocket to the launchpad for the first time on Thursday, March 17, and you can watch the whole event as it happens.
Admittedly, the rocket’s careful, four-mile crawl to the launchpad — aboard a low-slung transporter with a top speed of 1 mph — means this particular livestream will be more suited to fans of so-called “slow TV,” but the event will give us our first proper look at the fully stacked rocket, complete with the new Orion spacecraft on top.
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