NASA will roll out a costly rocket to the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, a milestone in a lunar space race between the US and China.

NASA will roll the rocket slated to carry four astronauts around the moon to the launch pad on Saturday, a key step as the Artemis II moon mission nears.

After rollout is complete, NASA will conduct a number of checkouts with Artemis 2's SLS and Orion. One of the most important tests is a wet dress rehearsal, during which teams wil

NASA 's first mission to take humans to the moon in half a century is creeping ever closer. The space agency has announced that the rollout of its Artemis 2 Space Launch System rocket and Orion Module will begin Saturday (Jan.

Depending on the timing, NASA could launch a fresh crew to the space station while four other astronauts are flying around the moon.

Watch live as NASA holds a mission overview news conference on the rollout of Artemis II, the first crewed lunar flyaround mission in more than half a century, on Saturday morning from the Kennedy Space Center.

NASA hopes to launch its crewed Artemis 2 moon mission in early February, but everything will have to go right to hit that ambitious target.

NASA's Artemis moon mission is one step closer to liftoff as the agency will roll out the Artemis 2 Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft that will eventually take four humans back to the moon for the first time since the 1972.