Nasa rolls out its mega moon rocket for launch pad tests


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Nasa’s massive new rocket began its first journey to a launch pad ahead of a battery of tests that will clear it to blast off to the moon this summer. It left the Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building on Thursday for an 11-hour journey on a crawler-transporter to the hallowed Launch Complex 39B, 6.5km (four miles) away. Around 10,000 people had gathered to watch the event. With the Orion crew capsule fixed on top, the Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 stands 322 feet (98 meters) high – taller than the Statue of Liberty, but a little smaller than...