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Janet Petro, director of the Kennedy Space Center, discussed in a Jan. 12 speech major milestones for the center that include both the SLS wet dress rehearsal and first launch in the first quarter of 2022.

NASA officials are holding out hope that the first Space Launch System launch can still take place as soon as March despite a delay in the rollout of the vehicle for a key test until mid-February.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...