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Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Exploration Mission-1 launch director, and Michael Sarafin, EM-1 mission manager, talk to members of the media inside the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sept. 8, 2018. Exploration Ground Systems is preparing the ground systems necessary to launch the agency's Space Launch System and Orion on EM-1, missions to the Moon and on to Mars.

Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Exploration Mission-1 launch director, and Michael Sarafin, EM-1 mission manager, talk to members of the media inside the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sept. 8, 2018. Exploration Ground Systems is preparing the ground systems necessary to launch the agency's Space Launch System and Orion on EM-1, missions to the Moon and on to Mars.

Photographer NASA/Cory Huston
Location VAB HB-3
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