{"id":666854,"date":"2026-03-19T13:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/666854\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:05:17","slug":"watch-nasa-roll-out-artemis-2-moon-rocket-on-march-19-ahead-of-april-1-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/666854\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch NASA roll out Artemis 2 moon rocket on March 19 ahead of April 1 launch"},"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 tonight (March 19) ahead of a planned April 1 liftoff, and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n

The Artemis 2<\/a> stack will leave Kennedy Space Center<\/a>‘s (KSC) huge Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) tonight at around 8 <\/strong>p.m. EDT (0000 GMT on March 20) and head for Launch Pad 39B, which lies about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) away. The trek, made atop NASA’s massive Crawler-Transporter 2<\/a> vehicle, will take up to 12 hours.<\/p>\n

You can watch the journey live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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NASA rolls out the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 2 moon mission on Jan. 17, 2026. (Image credit: NASA\/Brandon Hancock)<\/p>\n

This will be the second rollout for Artemis 2, which will launch four astronauts on a 10-day flight around the moon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The first rollout happened on Jan. 17<\/a>; two weeks later, the Artemis 2 team conducted a wet dress rehearsal (WDR), running the mission’s Space Launch System<\/a> (SLS) rocket and Orion<\/a> crew capsule through their paces on Pad 39B.<\/p>\n

However, a leak of liquid hydrogen propellant<\/a> ended that two-day-long test a bit early. Team members fixed the leak on the pad, swapping out some seals in the affected area. They then performed another WDR, which Artemis 2 completed on Feb. 19.<\/p>\n

That success kept the mission on target for a planned March 6 launch<\/a>. But overnight from Feb. 20 to Feb. 21, the Artemis 2 team noticed a new problem: a helium-flow interruption in the SLS upper stage.<\/p>\n

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Mission managers rolled the Artemis 2 stack back to the VAB to deal with that issue, fixing it earlier this month<\/a>. Now, everything is set for a second rollout ahead of a planned launch on April 1.<\/p>\n

There will be fewer hoops to jump through this time: NASA has said it doesn’t plan to conduct another WDR after Artemis 2 gets back to the pad.<\/p>\n

The Artemis 2 astronauts are NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency<\/a>. The quartet will be the first people to venture beyond low Earth orbit<\/a> since the final Apollo<\/a> mission in 1972.<\/p>\n

If Artemis 2 cannot get off the ground on April 1, NASA has other opportunities<\/a> each day from April 2 to April 6, as well as on April 30. Another launch window opens in May, but the agency has not yet announced potential dates in that month.<\/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":666855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[159,783,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-666854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116255990046955223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666854","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=666854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}