Liftoff of NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission is set for Aug. 29 at 8:33 a.m. EDT (1233 GMT).
"We've been through our challenges, just like every other piece of this whole rocket," Bruce Tiller, NASA's manager for the SLS boosters, told Space.com in an interview."Everybody's had their challenges that they've overcome over those years. And now I think we're as ready to go as we can be. And it's just really exciting."
Congress directed NASA to build the Space Launch System over a decade ago, calling on the agency to use shuttle-legacy hardware like the solid rocket boosters and RS-25 core engines derived to build a new vehicle for deep space exploration. The first test flight was targeted for 2017 at the time. It is way behind schedule.
"I would say simply that space is hard," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, who was in the Senate as a Florida senator when SLS was approved, said Saturday on what the agency has learned over time."You are developing new systems, and it takes money and it takes time."A diagram of NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission stages during its 42-day flight.
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