NASA is preparing for a two-hour launch window that begins at 1:04 a.m. EST on Nov. 16, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Eventually, the series of Artemis missions will again send people to the moon -- this time as the first step of the space agency's ambitious ultimate goal of the next giant leap for humankind: sending the first astronauts to Mars.Overnight, NASA launched the unmanned Artemis I test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. Instead of humans or animals, as some space agencies did in decades past, three mannequins were deployed on the mission.
Several previous attempts had been scrapped due to weather and technical issues. NASA managed to plug a fuel leak late Tuesday night while fueling its new moon rocket before the early Wednesday launch.
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