NASA is rolling out the Artemis II rocket back onto its launch pad in Florida ahead of a new target launch date of April 1. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood has more from the Kennedy Space Center.

NASA began rolling the Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launchpad shortly after midnight Friday Eastern Time in anticipation of a launch in early April. The journey of the Space Launch System rocket to Launch Pad 39B was to take about four hours.

NASA recently announced that it’s targeting April 1 for the launch of its highly anticipated lunar-bound mission, Artemis II. Inside the Orion spacecraft lifted to space by the powerful SLS rocket will be NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman,

NASA's Artemis II rocket has rolled out to the launch pad after repairs, preparing for a historic moon mission in April.

NASA's Artemis II rocket rollout is underway after a wind delay overnight, according to officials. The process was supposed to start at 8 p.m. on Thursday, moving the rocket from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center.

NASA is preparing to roll its Artemis II rocket back to the launch pad Thursday night, marking another key step toward a planned crewed mission around the moon. The rollout from the Vehicle

NASA is moving its moon rocket Artemis II from the hangar to the launch pad on Friday at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, ahead of humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than 50 years. Artemis II will send four astronauts on an approximately 10-day mission around the moon and back,

Nasa has, for the second time this year, rolled its colossal moon rocket from its hangar to the launchpad, hoping to send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around mission next month. If the latest repairs hold and all goes to plan,