NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) will lift off on Monday, August 29, 2022 at 8:33AM ET.
Have you heard of the largest rocket launch in human history?
It has almost zero news coverage, but before breakfast on Monday, August 29, 2022, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will make its maiden flight.
It’s now on the launch pad in Florida.
This is the first step in a flight plan to land the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface by 2025.
As part of the Artemis-1 mission, SLS sent NASA’s new Orion spacecraft to the moon, followed by a daring 1.3 million-mile lunar journey in 42 days, 3 hours and 20 minutes. It will splash down from San Diego on October 10, 2022.
There won’t be astronauts on Orion this time – it’s just practice – but the sights and sounds of the biggest rocket launch ever made are not to be missed.
When will NASA Artemis-1 launch?
The unmanned Artemis-1 mission will launch Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, from Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center between 8:33 a.m. and 10:33 a.m. ET.
If weather or other accidents prevent it, the next launch window is Friday, September 2, 2022, at lunchtime.
How to watch Artemis-1 live
Coverage on NASA TV, on YouTube (below), begins at 6:30am ET, NASA website, Facebook, twitch and on 4k NASA’s Ultra HD Channels.
While this is the launch you’ll listen to later, you’ll later watch a live view of Earth from orbit and during Orion’s outbound coast to the moon.
The exact time depends on the exact departure time, but if the departure is scheduled to take place at 8:33AM EST, it will be 5:30PM EST.
How to watch Artemis-1 live in virtual reality
The launch can also be viewed in 360 degrees through a virtual reality (VR) headset.smallPace Explorer: Artemis Rising From Felix & Paul Studios – and commentary from retired NASA astronauts Karen Nyberg and Doug Hurley – will be live at:
How big and powerful is SLS?
Standing 322 feet tall, the SLS will be the world’s most powerful rocket launched since NASA’s last Saturn V “Moon rocket” sent the Skylab space station into Earth orbit in 1973. With a thrust of 8.8 million pounds (3.9 million kilograms), the SLS is the most powerful rocket ever built. It may soon be surpassed by SpaceX’s Starship, but for now it’s the largest ever.
What is Artemis-1?
Artemis-1 is an uncrewed flight test mission where NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the European Service Model (ESM) and NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) – the world’s most powerful rocket – will fly to the moon.
The spacecraft and rocket will launch, orbit the Earth, and send Orion and the ESM into the moon’s elliptical orbit, bringing them to within 62 miles and more than 40,000 miles above the lunar surface. That’s farther than any spacecraft built for astronauts.
What is Artemis-2?
Scheduled for 2024, Artemis-2 will be a shorter 10-day repeat than Artemis-1, but with four astronauts on board to test Orion’s life support system. Artemis-2 will orbit Earth twice before reaching 4,600 miles on the far side of the moon.
This will be the first manned flyby of the moon in the 21st century.
What is Artemis-3?
Artemis-3, scheduled for 2025 or later, will be the first time astronauts have landed on the lunar surface since Apollo 17 left the moon in December 1972.
The 30-day mission will see Orion – with four astronauts inside – rendezvous with an embryonic lunar orbiting platform – Gateway, before a female astronaut and a male astronaut descend to the moon’s south pole Shaq aboard a SpaceX Starship vehicle The lunar surface near the Dunn crater. The mission will perform four spacewalks in 6.5 days.
Each year through 2030, more Artemis missions will help build the lunar portal’s habitation module and descend three further times to the lunar surface.
It all starts on Monday! do not miss it!
May you have a clear sky and open your eyes.
