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back to article NASA sets a date to begin lunar tuning

NASA has set a date for the test of the technologies it hopes will see it return to the Moon and explore Mars: February 2022. The agency on Saturday announced that its Orion spacecraft has been stacked atop the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and if all tests go well is expected to make an uncrewed test flight around the …

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  1. Spherical Cow Silver badge

    No rush

    Assembly in the VAB started on 20th November last year, which is when they lifted the solid-fuel boosters to vertical. That's 11 months to bolt all the sections together. Fingers crossed they can do it faster for subsequent rockets or the time between missions will be very long.

    Rockets go very very fast, but it can take them aaaages to get started.

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  2. Pete 2 Silver badge

    Moon botherers

    > NASA has set a date for the test of the technologies it hopes will see it return to the Moon and explore Mars: February 2022.

    > .... it would be no surprise if the February date slipped.

    And as Douglas Adams said: I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”

    That could be the only fly-by that this mission achieves.

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