A flight of the Space Launch System and Orion capsule without astronauts aboard is planned for early next year, a first, long-delayed step toward returning astronauts to the moon’s surface.
New York Times: NASA plans moon launch with giant rocket
This NASA image released on Sept. 1, 2021, shows Hurricane Ida pictured as a category 2 storm from the International Space Station as it orbited 263 miles above the Gulf of Mexico, with upper(L), the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module docked to the Earth-facing port of the Zvezda service module on Aug. 28, 2021.
