The most powerful rocket NASA has ever built is set to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center today on its way toward a rendezvous with the moon:
issued last year predicted that the space agency would"exceed its timetable" for the first Artemis moon landing"by several years."
"The lunar south pole is an absolutely extraordinary geologic terrain," says David Kring, a lunar geologist at the Center for Lunar Science & Exploration in Houston, Texas."We are going to learn so much about the evolution of the moon." A polar mission, however, will be something new. It represents a departure from Apollo, which placed a dozen astronauts at sites all nearer the moon's equator.
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