Orion's journey will last 42 days as it travels to the moon, loops around it and returns to Earth - traveling a total of 1.3 million miles (2.1 million kilometers). Once the launch has occurred, NASA will conduct a post-launch briefing, and later in the day, the agency will share the first Earth views from cameras aboard the Orion spacecraft. ET as supercold propellant is loaded into the SLS rocket.Īppearances by celebrities like Jack Black, Chris Evans and Keke Palmer and performances of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' by Josh Groban and Herbie Hancock and 'America the Beautiful' by The Philadelphia Orchestra and cellist Yo-Yo Ma are also part of the program. The agency will share live views and coverage in English and Spanish before, during and after the Artemis I launch on its website and on NASA TV. Crews will ride aboard Artemis II on a similar trajectory in 2024, and the first woman and the next man to land on the moon are slated to arrive at the lunar south pole in late 2025 on the Artemis III mission. The Orion spacecraft will enter a distant retrograde orbit of the moon and travel 40,000 miles beyond it, going further than any spacecraft intended to carry humans. ET from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Īlthough there is no human crew aboard the mission, it's the first step of the Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the moon and eventually land them on Mars. The uncrewed Artemis I mission, including the Space Launch System Rocket and Orion spacecraft, is targeting liftoff on Aug.

For the first time in 50 years, an American spacecraft is preparing to launch on a journey to the moon.

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