{"id":124068,"date":"2021-06-21T21:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T04:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/nasas-new-moon-rocket-the-space-launch-system-takes-shape-in-giant-hangar"},"modified":"2021-06-21T21:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T04:22:35","slug":"nasas-new-moon-rocket-the-space-launch-system-takes-shape-in-giant-hangar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/nasas-new-moon-rocket-the-space-launch-system-takes-shape-in-giant-hangar","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s new moon rocket, the Space Launch System, takes shape in giant hangar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-new-moon-rocket-the-space-launch-system-takes-shape-in-giant-hangar2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The SLS moon rocket for Artemis 1 is all stacked up.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 NASA is one step closer to the moon. The space agency\u2019s next megarocket, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/33908-space-launch-system.html\">Space Launch System<\/a> (SLS) is coming together ahead of its first planned launch later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The behemoth\u2019s core stage arrived at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center, via barge on April 27, before rolling into the massive Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), its home until launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SLS moon rocket for Artemis 1 is all stacked up. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 NASA is one step closer to the moon. The space agency\u2019s next megarocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) is coming together ahead of its first planned launch later this year. The behemoth\u2019s core stage arrived at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}