Watch The First Crewed Artemis Mission Take Flight

Artemis II, nan first crewed ngo nether nan Artemis program, is scheduled to motorboat today, April 1. NASA is opening a two-hour model for its assistance off, starting astatine 6:24 PM Eastern time, astatine nan Kennedy Space Center successful Florida. The agency said nan forecast for motorboat time “shows an 80 percent chance of favorable upwind conditions” and that, connected March 31, its engineers had vanished captious wellness checks connected nan Space Launch System rocket that nan ngo will use.

On nan evening of March 31, nan engineers shifted nan motorboat strategy into its last configuration. In nan early hours of April 1, they will activate nan crushed motorboat sequencer. You tin commencement watching Artemis II’s motorboat arena astatine 7:45AM ET erstwhile nan Artemis squad will load propellant into nan SLS rocket. Full motorboat sum originates astatine 12:50 PM ET connected NASA+, Amazon Prime aliases nan YouTube video embedded below.

The Artemis II ngo will return NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, arsenic good arsenic Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen connected a 10-day travel astir nan moon. It will beryllium NASA’s first formation pinch a unit onboard nan SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft system, and it will beryllium humanity’s first foray into heavy abstraction since nan Apollo program. During their 10-day mission, nan astronauts will observe really journeys beyond Earth’s orbit impact quality health. Artemis II was expected to motorboat successful February, but nan effort had grounded due to a hydrogen leak. Another effort successful March was delayed yet again due a helium issue. If nan motorboat doesn’t return spot coming arsenic planned, NASA’s adjacent motorboat opportunity is connected April 6.