NASA moon rocket: From Hitchhikers, Moonship to crew capsule, all explained
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NASA has kicked off its new moon program with a test flight of a brand-new rocket and capsule.
NASA has kicked off its new moon program with a test flight of a brand-new rocket and capsule. Liftoff, which was slated for early Wednesday morning from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, went off successfully. The test flight has sent an empty crew capsule into a far-flung lunar orbit, 50 years after NASA's famed Apollo moonshots.The project is years late and billions over budget. The price tag for the test flight: more than $4 billion. A rundown of the new rocket and capsule, part of NASA's Artemis program, named after Apollo's mythological twin sister: ROCKET POWERAt 322 feet (98 meters), the new rocket is shorter and slimmer than the Saturn V rockets that hurled 24 Apollo astronaut...