NASA will roll Artemis 2 moon rocket out to the launch pad
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NASA is reconsidering the use of a massive mobile launcher at the Kennedy Space Center, raising questions about costs, delays and jobs tied to the Artemis moon program.
100 years after Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, NASA is preparing a return to the moon with the Artemis program.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced significant changes to the agency's Artemis program, which aims to land on the moon in 2028.
Built in the 1906s, NASA’s crawler transporter has carried Saturn V rockets for Apollo, Space Shuttles and is now a key part of getting moon-bound Artemis to the launch pad.
Artemis II has been plagued by similar issues to those faced by its predecessor, leading NASA to shake up its plan to return humans to the Moon.
NASA’s planetary science program is still facing a funding shortfall that requires “strategic choices” about which missions to continue.
A full moon is seen shining over NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher in the early hours of February 1, 2026. For 53 years, since the end of the Apollo program, humans have only felt the pull of the Earth's gravity.