[Nodxa] NASA Artemis I big launch early tomorrow August 29

[Glenn Williams]

NOTE: TIMES HERE ARE USUALLY EXPRESSED AS EASTERN STANDARD TIMES!

Borrowed news! Subject to changes.

--73, Glenn, AF8C

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Artemis-1 is scheduled to launch on Monday, August 29, 2022. The launch 
window opens at 8:33 a.m. EST and closes at 10:33 a.m. EST. Artemis-1 
will launch from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape 
Canaveral, Florida.

If the launch is scrubbed there are two other launch dates—Friday, 
September 2 (12:48 - 14:48 EDT) and Monday, September 5 (17:12 - 18:42 EDT)

Artemis-1 is a mission like no other—a long-duration trip to the Moon, 
way past it and back again. The first in an increasingly complex series 
of missions, Artemis I will test NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket, the Space 
Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft as an integrated system prior 
to crewed flights to the Moon.

Standing 322 ft. high, SLS will be the most powerful rocket in the world 
to launch since NASA’s final Saturn V “Moon rocket” took the Skylab 
space station into Earth orbit in 1973.

At 8.8 million pounds (3.9 million kg) of thrust, SLS is the most 
powerful rocket ever produced. You do not want to miss this!

WHERE: NASA YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/nasa

or NASA

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

Here’s the exact schedule:
· 6:30 a.m. EST: live launch coverage begins in English (Spanish is 7:30 
a.m. EST on separate feeds on Twitter,
· 8:33-10:33 a.m. EST: Launch window.
· Around an hour after lift-off will be a post-launch news conference.
· 4:00 p.m. EST: Coverage of Orion’s first outbound trajectory burn on 
the way to the Moon. Exact time depends on exact liftoff time.
· 5:30 p.m. EST: Coverage of first Earth views from Orion during 
outbound coast to the Moon. Exact time depends on exact liftoff time.