NASA's Artemis 2 rocket will roll out Saturday (Jan. 17) ahead of a possible Feb. 6 launch.

NASA’s giant new moon rocket headed to the launch pad Saturday in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century.

Headed to the pad is 11 million pounds of hardware including the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft atop the mobile launcher, hauled on the crawler-transporter 2, a massive tracked vehicl...