Moon Rocket Rollout Culmination of International Teamwork, NASA Says

‘We don’t do it alone,’ NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said at a press conference.

NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building while posters celebrating the teams that helped build it hang in the foreground at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Jan. 17, 2026. T.J. Muscaro/The Epoch Times

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Humanity’s next ride to the moon made its way out to the launchpad on Jan. 17, and NASA leadership marked the special occasion as the culmination of the global effort that made it a reality.

“We see this beautiful hardware behind us, the SLS, the Orion,” NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission commander Reid Wiseman said at a press conference.