NASA’s Space Launch System rocket is the only vehicle in the current U.S. fleet designed to send astronauts beyond low Earth orbit, and that singular capability makes it the load-bearing element of the Artemis II mission.

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NASA's giant moon rocket is back on the launch pad in Florida, setting the stage for what appears to be an imminent launch of the Artemis 2 mission.

NASA’s Space Launch System, the agency’s flagship rocket designed to carry astronauts back to the Moon under the Artemis program, stands 322 feet tall in its Block 1 configuration. That height exceeds the Statue of Liberty and rivals many mid-rise office towers found in American cities.

NASA’s Artemis II SLS rocket is on its Florida launch pad, and visitors can see it from several Titusville parks or at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex before the mission around the moon.

NASA's Space Launch System rocket, with the Orion spacecraft atop, launched at 6:35 p.m. ET on Wednesday, kicking off the first mission to send astronauts to the Moon in over 50 years.

Artemis II is scheduled to launch from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, sending four astronauts on a 10-day mission into deep space, around the moon, and back to Earth.

Four astronauts have embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon, humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century.