NASA will roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket out to the launch pad on Saturday (Jan. 17), and you can watch the slow-moving action live.

NASA officials were jittery with excitement as they briefed reporters on the final preparations for Artemis 2 on Friday. This historic mission to slingshot a team of four astronauts around the Moon could lift off in a matter of weeks,

The NASA mega-rocket set to carry four astronauts on a 10-day test trip around the moon is on its way to its launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Follow live.

NASA is preparing to roll out its towering Artemis 2 moon rocket to Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 17, and we will have full coverage of the major event here. The Artemis 2 moon rocket consists of NASA's second Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft,

Embarking from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the 11 million-pound (5 million kilograms) stack will be transported at a speed of about 1 mph (1.6 km/h along a 4-mile (6.4 kilometers) route — a journey that will take up to 12 hours and be streamed live on NASA's Youtube channel.

NASA moved the rocket slated to carry four astronauts around the moon to the launch pad on Saturday, a key step as the Artemis II moon mission nears.