After enduring a battering by Hurricane Nicole, NASA’s House Launch System moon rocket is standing on a launch pad (once more) prepared for its debut flight. Should you could not make it to the launch in particular person, you may at the least be a part of it with House.com’s Brett Tingley, who could be very excited to see the massive rocket fly.Â
If all goes to plan, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will carry off from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy House Heart in Florida at 1:04 a.m. EST (0604 GMT) on Wednesday (Nov. 16). The launch window might be open for 2 hours, nonetheless, so it could possibly be a protracted evening. In case you are among the many many space nerds who’re staying up late for the liftoff, you may tune in to one in all Brett Tingley’s House.com webcasts on YouTube or Fb, the place you may ask him questions in regards to the milestone mission, known as Artemis 1.Â
The mission, the primary within the NASA-led Artemis program, will take a look at applied sciences for humankind’s return to the moon. Throughout the take a look at flight, solely two manikins, named Helga and Zohar, will occupy the Orion space capsule, which might be boosted by the SLS rocket for a lunar spherical journey. The capsule suffered some minor damage from Hurricane Nicole final week, however NASA engineers concluded the spacecraft was nonetheless match for its mission.Â
Associated: NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission: Live updates
Artemis 1 has already been postponed a number of occasions, due to technical glitches and the arrival of Hurricane Ian on Florida’s House Coast. NASA hopes to fly its successor, Artemis 2, which is able to take a human crew for a lunar spherical journey, inside the subsequent two years. The Artemis 2 mission would be the first to take people into lunar orbit because the Apollo program. In the end, NASA plans not solely to land people on the moon once more however to determine a everlasting human station on its floor.
When to look at Brett?
Replay! See Artemis 1 on the Kennedy House Heart?
12:00pm ET, Nov. 15: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCLKDX48DFc
Artemis 1 moon rocket fueling
3:30pm ET, Nov. 15: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vv3pkuBfgI
Artemis 1 countdown replace
10:00 pm ET, Nov. 15 (reside on House.com): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=461qOlNHVDo
Dwell Artemis 1 launch livestream!
12:50 am ET, Nov. 16: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IckM3YIWIh4
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