Nasa S New Moon Rocket Takes Off 50 Years After Apollo Space News
If all goes well during the three-week flight, the rocket will propel an empty crew capsule into a wide orbit around the Moon, and then the capsule will return to Earth with a dive into the Pacific in December. After years of delays and billions in cost overruns, the Space Launch System rocket thundered skyward, lifting off from the Kennedy Space Center with 4 million kilograms (8.8 million pounds) of thrust and hitting 160 km/h (100 mph) in seconds....