The Artemis I rocket is set for launch early Wednesday morning, the latest attempt to send an unmanned capsule near the moon after a series of postponements due to weather and mechanical issues.
a takeoff scheduled for Monday after Hurricane Nicole made landfall about 85 miles south of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The rocket, which remained on the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center during the storm, sustained "minor" damage that would be easy to repair, Jim Free, associate administrator for NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, said in aThe moon rises above the Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard on launch pad 39B as preparations for the Artemis mission continue at the Kennedy Space Center, Nov. 14, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
The space capsule will travel for roughly 25 days -- reaching as close as 60 miles from the moon, and then 40,000 miles above the moon when orbiting over its dark side -- before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on Dec. 11.
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