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Supermoon rocket 🤩⁣ ⁣ This weekend, our #Artemis I Moon mission begins its final major test: the wet dress rehearsal, a multiple-day simulated launch countdown at NASA centers across the United States. NASA engineers will load more than 700,000 gallons (3.18 million liters) of cryogenic propellants into the Space Launch System rocket, which will send our Orion spacecraft (and Commander Moonikin Campos, our test manikin) on a 4-6 week journey as we prepare for long-term lunar exploration on future NASAArtemis missions. Artemis I is currently scheduled to launch no earlier than August 2022.⁣ ⁣ In this photo, a full moon rises over Artemis I at NASAKennedy on June 14 as we get our rocket and spacecraft ready for the wet dress rehearsal test. This week's moon was a supermoon, a full moon that appears slightly larger in the sky because it's near perigee—the closest point in its orbit to Earth, about 226,000 miles (363,000 kilometers) away.⁣ ⁣ Credit: NASA/Cory Huston⁣ ⁣ #NASA #Space #NASAA...

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