{"id":521853,"date":"2026-01-17T03:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/521853\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T03:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:35:15","slug":"watch-nasa-roll-huge-artemis-2-moon-rocket-out-to-the-launch-pad-on-jan-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/521853\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch NASA roll huge Artemis 2 moon rocket out to the launch pad on Jan. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA’s Artemis II Live Views from Kennedy Space Center – YouTube
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NASA will roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket out to the launch pad on Saturday (Jan. 17), and you can watch the slow-moving action live.<\/p>\n

The agency’s massive Crawler-Transporter 2<\/a> vehicle will carry the Artemis 2 Space Launch System<\/a> (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center<\/a> to Launch Pad 39B.<\/p>\n

The 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) trek will begin Saturday as early as 7 a.m. EST (1200 GMT) and will likely take eight to 10 hours. You can watch it live here at Space.com courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Artemis 1 stack sits atop Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on March 18, 2022, following its hours-long rollout. (Image credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky)<\/p>\n

Artemis 2<\/a> will send NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, as well as Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency<\/a>, on a 10-day trip around the moon and back. It will be the first crewed mission to lunar realms since Apollo 17<\/a> way back in 1972.<\/p>\n

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After rollout is complete, NASA will conduct a number of checkouts with Artemis 2’s SLS and Orion. One of the most important tests is a wet dress rehearsal, during which teams will load the rocket with its cryogenic propellants and conduct a simulated launch countdown.<\/p>\n

That milestone is currently planned for Feb. 2, and how it goes will help set the timeline for launch. And a smooth wet dress is far from guaranteed.<\/p>\n

Wet dress rehearsals for the Artemis 1<\/a> mission, for example, revealed leaks of liquid hydrogen. NASA rolled the Artemis 1 stack back to the VAB<\/a> multiple times to deal with the issue, which, among other factors, delayed the mission’s launch significantly.<\/p>\n

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Artemis 1 successfully sent an uncrewed Orion to lunar orbit and back. The mission lifted off<\/a> on Nov. 16, 2022 and ended with Orion’s Pacific Ocean splashdown on Dec. 11 of that year.<\/p>\n

NASA has not yet announced a target launch date for Artemis 2 and will not do so until the wet dress and other key checkouts are in the books.<\/p>\n

There are three liftoff windows for the mission at the moment, which feature potential launch opportunities on Feb. 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11; March 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11; and April 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA’s Artemis II Live Views from Kennedy Space Center – YouTube Watch On NASA will roll its Artemis…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":521854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-521853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115908347680104034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}