Artemis Rocket Ready for Moon Mission

0:00On this March 17th in Birmingham, here's what is making headlines. NASA's Artemis Second Rocket is ready for a big move. Teams that Kennedy Space Center plans to roll it out from the vehicle assembly building on March 20th. This keeps the door open for an April 1st launch date. Engineers fix the key issue over the weekend by replacing the electrical harness in the flight termination system. They wrapped up all close-out work just in time for the roll-out. The 12-hour trip will take the Space Launch System rocket in Orion spacecraft to launch complex 39B. Four astronauts will ride it on a test flight around the moon and back. Those crew members include NASA astronauts, Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, plus Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hanson. They will be the first humans on Orion. Orion already flew unmanned around the moon on its debut mission, going farther than any human-rated spacecraft before. Now, teams are watching the weather closely to see if that early April launch happens.

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