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The new rocket is 98 metres tall (roughly 29 storeys), coming in just under the 110 metres of the Saturn V that took the Apollo astronauts to the moon. 'We're really getting close to being able to do that.' How big is the rocket? 'That's the point where we'll be in a good position as an agency to set a launch date,' Whitmeyer said. NASA will then analyze work for just over a week during post-test operations and then will roll SLS back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for actual launch preparations. The reason for that is two-fold: firstly, it's much larger than the rockets that launched the shuttles and secondly, it has two core stages compared to the external tank that launched the shuttles. The process of loading the fuel will take about eight hours, which is considerably longer than the two-hour loading process of the space shuttle's rocket. They will then roll back to the T–10 minute count and replicate a launch abort. Though SLS will roll out on Thursday, NASA said in a news conference that it isn't expected to load the propellants until April 3 and then go through its operations and countdown. Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program. New York: Abrams Books, 2007 Duggins, Pat. NASA is rolling the SLS out to the launch pad in order to run through tests. America in Space: NASA's First Fifty Years. Shuttle Atlantis on Friday successfully launched for the last time and is now zooming toward the International Space Station for a 12-day mission that will bring NASA's 30-year shuttle program to a close. Why are they rolling it out to the launch pad? Here are some things to know about this first step that will return humans to the moon.

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NASA's TV coverage of the rollout begins at 5 p.m. 'Thursday's going to be a day to remember.' And to be here for a new generation of a super-heavy lift, exploration class vehicle,' Tom Whitmeyer, deputy associate administrator for NASA's exploration systems development division, said last week during a news conference. 'The rolling out of the VAB, that's really an iconic moment for this vehicle. NASA said it could take anywhere between four and 12 hours to travel the 6.5 kilometres from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to the launch pad. It will be a momentous occasion when the massive orange and white rocket rolls out on the crawler first used for the Apollo missions and later for the space shuttle missions. The Space Launch System (SLS) also consists of two solid rocket boosters which may seem familiar: They were used on NASA's space shuttle missions until the program ended in 2011.

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