NASA has launched the most powerful rocket - SLS (Space Launch System).

This is one of the key stages of the Artemis mission to land astronauts on the moon after a half-century hiatus. A giant 98-meter rocket will launch the Orion reusable spacecraft into space, carrying mannequins with artificial organs to assess the effects of radiation on the body, plant seeds, fungi and algae. It will fly around the Moon and return to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on December 11. If everything goes according to plan, then in 2024 the Artemis-2 mission will start - already with people on board, but without disembarking. It is planned to lower the crew to the lunar surface in 2025 as part of Artemis-3. Recall that the last and sixth manned landing on the moon took place as part of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.