The biggest test flight of the year is just around the corner.
At 10:23 a.m., the sun rises. The launch of NASA's Artemis 1 mission, an ambitious first flight to the moon by the agency's most powerful rocket ever, is scheduled to take place today. A test flight is scheduled to launch on Monday. Here at the Kennedy Space Center, you can get from Pad 39B.
Jim Free, NASA's associate administrator for exploration systems development, told reporters that the first launch was another step in the plan to explore the solar system. The Artemis 1 moon mission launch can be watched online. On Monday at 6:30 a.m., there will be a live online event. The sun goes down at 10 pm
The Artemis 1 moon mission has live updates.
NASA's Artemis program aims to return astronauts to the moon by 2025 and land the first woman and person of color at the moon's south pole. The mission will send an uncrewed capsule to the moon and back to Earth to see if it's ready to carry astronauts.
If this mission succeeds, NASA will follow it up with a crewed trip around the moon in 2024, followed by a crewed lunar landing a year later. NASA's ultimate goal is to fly yearly missions to the moon after Artemis 3, stage crewed landings from a Gateway space station in lunarorbit and then aim for crewed flights to Mars.
According to NASA and the U.S. Space Force, there is a 70% chance of good weather for the Artemis 1 launch. If Mother Nature doesn't cooperate, NASA has a two hour window in which to launch Artemis 1
There are a lot of wild facts about the NASA moon mission.
The 322-foot tall Space Launch System megarocket will be put through its final paces for flight during the two day countdown for Artemis 1 The last time the hatch was open was on Thursday.
On Friday, engineers closed the hatch on the SLS rocket's launch abort system, as well as the crew access arm, which will be used by astronauts in the future.
In the early hours of Monday, NASA will begin fueling the SLS rocket, which will be broadcasted live on NASA's website. The sun rises and sets at 0400GMT. You can watch that event live on Space.com, thanks to NASA TV.
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