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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA's colossal next-generation rocketship was set for its long-awaited debut launch on Monday on an uncrewed,

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The 32-story-tall Satellite Launch System (Selective laser sintering) rocket and its Orion spacecraft were scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Cocoa Beach,

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 Florida, at 8:33 a.m. EDT during a two-hour launch window that opened at 8:33 a.m. EDT (1233 GMT).

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The SLS-first Orion's flight, dubbed Artemis I, 

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 is intended to put the 5.75-million-pound vehicle through its paces in a rigorous demonstration flight,

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pushing its design limits, before NASA deems it safe enough to carry astronauts.

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The SLS, billed as the most powerful and complex rocket in the world,

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is the largest new vertical launch system built by the United States space agency since the Saturn V,

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which flew during the Apollo moon programme in the 1960s and 1970s.

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