NASA's giant moon rocket is back on the launch pad. See new photos of SLS
By Eric Lagatta
Published on March 20, 2026.
NASA's giant moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, has been successfully rolled back to the launch pad in Florida for the Artemis 2 lunar mission, the first U.S. human lunar mission in five decades. The mission, which will take four astronauts around the moon, is set to set the stage for a future moon landing. The four-person crew, including NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen, have entered quarantine to avoid illness ahead of the historic mission. The move comes after teams began rolling the 322-foot rocket SLS rocket from the Kennedy Space Center on Friday, March 20, and was delayed due to high winds in Cape Canaveral. While no moon landing is planned for the mission, it is expected to take place as early as 2020 during a mission known as Artemis 4.
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