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According to NASA, the launch of the world's most powerful rocket for a mission to the moon is scheduled to reconvene on Saturday at 2:17 p.m. eastern time, with a two-hour window.

According to two former NASA scientists, Russia has been a frustrating space partner to the US for a decade, and America's approach toward the country has been'schizophrenic.' Both Jim Bridenstine and Charles Bolden referred to a tense link with the Vladimir Putin-led world and warned that officials should carefully look at NASA's foreign relations during the multi-year Artemis program before setting foot on the moon. 'I will tell you that our nation's policies against Russia, when you think about spaceflight, is schizophrenic,' Bridenstine, who supervised NASA from April 2018 to January 2021, said during a livestreamed event at Arizona State University on Monday that coincided with the space agency's planned launch of Artemis 1.

If all goes as planned, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida will see the first lunar mission since Apollo 17 blast off into space, watched by a crowd of 100,000 people. Nasa, the US space agency, wants to launch the world's most advanced rocket with a mission that is equally grand in scope, 50 years in the making. The explorers who will travel on the Artemis program will not just be stepping on the moon long enough to do a little lunar sightseeing and purchase some souvenirs before returning home, as on the Apollo missions. They intend to remain, including the establishment of lunar bases on the moon's South Pole and the construction of a space station in lunar orbit.