Standing taller than the Statue of Liberty and having cost an eye-watering $23 billion (£19 billion) to build, NASA’s brand new mega moon rocket is now just weeks away from its maiden launch.
The enormous Space Launch System (SLS) is scheduled to blast into space on August 29 as part of a six-week mission that will see it carry an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to lunar orbit and back.
It will be the first of three planned trips to the moon