Secretary of War Pete Hegseth went on a test flight in Florida on Monday, flown by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, as the agency prepares for its Artemis II launch expected for next week.

The same day Hegseth visited their facilities in Port Canaveral, NASA began one of its final tests of the Space Launch System rocket, which will take four astronauts further into space than anyone has since the Apollo program ended more than 50 years ago.

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