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orbit the moon with astronauts board and artemis iii for 2025 will land people at the moon s south pole. joining me now is kristen fisher live at the kennedy space center in florida. i love the nod to the program, calling this artemis. what s the significance of this mission if we ve been to the moon before? reporter: you know, a lot of people say that. the reason nasa wants to go back to the moon with the artemis program is two reasons one they want to leave behind more than flags and footprints. they want to build a base on the moon. one that astronauts can live on permanently. and part of the reason they want to do this is because china also has plans to build a base on the south pole of the moon, so there s a political competition element to it. and the other reason is they want to go to mars. nasa officials stress the moon is a proving ground and stepping point to some day get to mars, christine? how are the weather conditions there? is it likely to lift off in the t
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so we are just a few hours away from the planned launch of nasa s artemis i rocket, the first of three planned missions that will return man and woman to the surface of the moon for the first time in 50 years. cnn innovation and space correspondent rachel crane is live at the kennedy space center in florida. how are the launch preparations proceeding this morning, rachel? reporter: well, christine, there are a few delays this morning that nasa is dealing with. unfortunately there was some weather delays overnight which caused the propellant loading to be delayed a little bit. also the team had to work a hydrogen leak. so nasa saying they re about an hour and 50 minutes behind schedule at this point. but the good news is that mother
The launch of Starship prototype SN8 on December 9, 2020. (Image: SpaceX)
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SpaceX is ready to conduct a high-altitude flight test of Starship prototype SN9, and our fingers are crossed that it’ll finally happen today. You can watch the action live right here.
The window for today’s launch is already open, and it’s set to close at 11 a.m. AEDT. I wish we could provide you with a firmer estimate for time of launch, but it is what it is. And in fact, today’s launch might not even happen.