Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, the space program called Artemis is to get under way with the blast off of the uncrewed 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at 8:33 am (1233 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida
The Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center as it is prepared for launch of an unmanned flight around the moon on August 28, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch is scheduled for Monday between 8:33am and 10:33am and would be the furthest into space any unmanned vehicle intended for humans has ever traveled before. Image: Joe Raedle/Getty Images