Towering over Florida's eastern coastline, NASA's imposing Space Launch System rocket has stood still as a sentinel since it was rolled back to the launch pad.

The astronauts set to become the first lunar visitors in more than half a century arrived at their launch site Friday, joining the towering rocket that stands poised to blast off next week and send th...

It will send four astronauts on a roughly 10-day journey around the moon and safely back to Earth on board the Orion capsule.