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March 19th, 2026
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Engineers are targeting 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time today, Thursday, March 19, to start rolling the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B at the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 will make the four-mile route from Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad. The journey can take up to 12 hours.
The window for the Artemis II launch with its four-person crew opens as early as Wednesday, April 1, with liftoff opportunities through Monday, April 6.
Four astronauts have been selected for NASA’s Artemis II mission: Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency, and mission specialist Christina Koch from NASA.
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The mission management team will assess flight readiness across the spacecraft, launch infrastructure, and the crew and operations teams before selecting a launch date.
To watch the rollout, it will be streamed on NASA’s You Tube channel.
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