NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission will be the agency's first big step toward returning astronauts to the lunar surface. Artemis 1 will be the first test flight of the agency's new Space Launch System megarocket and the Orion crew capsule. The SLS rocket will launch the uncrewed Orion spacecraft on an approximately 42-day mission, during which it will orbit the moon before returning to Earth. Artemis 1 is currently scheduled to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 10:37 a.m. CDT from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A backup day may be available on Oct. 2. (Source: Space.com 09/13/22) NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission: Live updates | Space
MISSISSIPPI NOTE: NASA’s Stennis (Miss.) Space Center helped make this moment possible. Each one of the four RS-25 engines that will help launch Artemis I was fired and proven flightworthy on the Fred Haise Test Stand at Stennis. The center also tested the engines in unison during the full-duration, 500-second Green Run test of the Artemis I SLS core stage.
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