Standing taller than Big Ben's clock tower at nearly 100m, the rocket and its launch platform weigh about 5,000 tonnes. They are being carried by Crawler‑Transporter‑2, a low‑slung, tank‑like vehicle on caterpillar tracks that Nasa built in 1965 to inch Saturn V Moon rockets to the pad.

NASA is rolling out the Artemis II rocket back onto its launch pad in Florida ahead of a new target launch date of April 1. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood has more from the Kennedy Space Center.

NASA begins rolling out the Artemis II rocket leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center on its way to Launch Pad 39-B just after midnight Friday, March 20, 202

Artemis II is about to leave NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building and return to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center ahead of its next launch attempt in April.

NASA plans to roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket to the pad on Thursday (March 19) and is still targeting April 1 for the launch of its first crewed mission to the moon in more than half a century.

NASA recently announced that it’s targeting April 1 for the launch of its highly anticipated lunar-bound mission, Artemis II. Inside the Orion spacecraft lifted to space by the powerful SLS rocket will be NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman,

NASA is preparing to roll its Artemis II rocket back to the launch pad Thursday night, marking another key step toward a planned crewed mission around the moon. The rollout from the Vehicle

Artemis II will send four astronauts on a nine-day trip around the moon. The next launch window opens on April 1.