If Nasa’s giant Space Launch System rocket lifts off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center as planned on Monday, it will become the first vehicle in 50 years capable of carrying humans to the Moon.
For the commercial space industry, it could signal something even more significant: the end of the line for the US space agency’s old way of doing business, and the start of a new era for commercial and international co-operation in space.
The SLS, which stands as high as a 30-storey building and is more powerful than the Saturn V rockets that carried Apollo missions to the Moon, is a monument to grand space ambition.
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