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By Paul FarrellIt
- Weather permitting, NASA’s Artemis 1 mission will commence with the launch of the Space Launch System rocket
- The unmanned mission will head to the Moon, hovering around 62 miles above the lunar service
- The rocket alone has cost $20 billion and can only be used once while the cost of the launch is $4.1 billion
- In 2023, the first manned Artemis mission will launch, according to NASA
- That mission will see astronauts performing a lunar flyby with an actual Moon landing planned for 2025
The first Moon rocket launched by NASA in five decades is expected to take off as early as August 29 from the Kennedy Space Center on Florida‘s coast.
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