BREAKING: NASA is set to launch the first humans to the moon since 1972 today on its Artemis 2 Mission. Here’s how to watch it live
In a few hours from now, NASA will launch its Artemis 2 astronauts around the moon on a 10-day mission. NASA revealed that there is an 80 percent chance of launching this spacecraft today after conducting its inspection.
This historic Artemis 2 launch will be the first astronaut mission around the moon since 1972. Liftoff of the SLS launch system will commence today, April 1, at 6:24 p.m. EDT (2224 GMT). You are about to see how the mission will commence and how you can watch it live here.
How the Artemis 2 mission will commence
The four astronauts participating in this mission, including NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (Commander), Victor Glover (Pilot), Christina Koch (Mission Specialist), and Jeremy Hansen (Mission Specialist), are prepared and ready to commence their mission around the moon starting today.
The Orion Spacecraft stacked atop the SLS launch system will lift off today at 6:24 p.m. EDT from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying the four astronauts towards the moon for the first time since 1972. In 2022, NASA previously launched the Artemis 1 uncrewed mission to prove that the agency can actually attempt a crewed mission.
NASA recorded a great success during the Artemis 1 mission. The agency also learned a lot about how to safely navigate to the moon from its first Artemis mission. The knowledge obtained from that first mission will be implemented during the Artemis 2 mission.
How to watch the Artemis 2 mission launch Live
You can watch the Artemis 2 launch directly on NASA’s Live TV on YouTube, or you can visit Spacedotcom and watch it directly on the platform. Most of these streaming platforms aim to start streaming a few hours before the launch.
Unlike the Apollo crewed missions to the moon, NASA plans to stream every part of the Artemis 2 mission in 4k on its streaming platforms. Hence, this mission will likely convince many moon landing deniers that we actually visited the moon back then in the 20th century, and we are also going to do it again in this decade. Are you excited about this forthcoming crewed mission to the moon?