All systems go for Thursday rollout of NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission

The rollout for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is right on track for this Thursday (March 17), agency officials said today (March 14). 

In just a few days, NASA’s immense Crawler-Transporter 2 vehicle will carry the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and Orion spacecraft on a 4-mile (6.4 kilometers) journey to Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This rollout will deliver the rocket and Orion to the pad where they will prepare to launch on a moonbound mission, currently set for no earlier than May of this year.