@@Emdee5632 What's at LC-36 are pathfinders that are a mix of flight and flight-like hardware, and will be used to test mating of the stages, installation on the transporter erector, the ground servicing equipment, propellant loading, etc. There will also be static hotfire tests of the 2nd stage and the 1st stage. If all goes well, the flight hardware being built will then go to the launch pad late this year to launch NASA's ESCAPADE spacecraft to Mars.
@@Emdee5632definitely will launch this year. NASA’s ESCAPADES mission will be flying to Mars first and then the Blue Moon pathfinder will be sent to the Moon. There are 2 other boosters planned to be launched this year and they may carry Kuiper satellites.
@@TheSpaceflightGuy Um, yes. That's been known that once NS-24 flew, then the next flight would be manned, but the interviews with Bob Smith and others indicated it would be up to six months before that happened. This seems to hint that things went so well that it could be much sooner.