NASA releases time lapse of moon rocket core stage

NASA has released time-lapse video of its new Space Launch System's 212-foot-tall core stage being placed between 177-foot-tall twin solid rocket boosters.

The replacement for the Apollo-era Saturn V rocket is being integrated inside its Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. NASA plans to launch the Space Launch System, rocket and an uncrewed Orion spacecraft by the end of this year, with the capsule flying to the moon and back as a prelude to crew missions. It named the moon program Artemis after Apollo's twin sister in Greek mythology. NASA aims to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon by 2024.