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After more than a decade of painstaking development and numerous delays, NASA\u2019s new mega-rocket, the Space Launch System, will roll out into the open Florida air this afternoon<\/a>, fully stacked and nearly ready to fly to space. Once in the great outdoors, it will embark on an 11-hour journey to its primary launchpad in Cape Canaveral, where it will undergo testing ahead of its debut flight beyond the Moon, set to occur sometime this year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a major milestone that could herald the beginning of NASA\u2019s return to the lunar surface. Designed to carry people and cargo into deep space, the Space Launch System, or SLS, is set to play a starring role in NASA\u2019s Artemis program, the space agency\u2019s major initiative to put the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon by the mid-2020s.<\/p>\n

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