NASA’s new moon rocket blasted off on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard, bringing the US a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the end of the Apollo programme 50 years ago.If all goes well during the three-week, make-or-break shakedown flight, the 32-story tall rocket will propel an empty crew capsule into a wide orbit around the moon, and then the capsule will return to Earth with a splashdown in the Pacific in December.The launch marked the start of the space agency’s new flagship programme, Artemis. “We are going,” tweeted the space agency early on Wednesday.
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