NASA begins Artemis II launch operations with coverage of tanking activities at 7:45 a.m. ET on April 1.
The Artemis II mission's towering Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, topped with the astronauts' Orion crew capsule, could launch as early as 6:24 p.m. ET.
It will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, just one pad away from where the last moon-bound astronauts of the U.S. Apollo program lifted off more than half a century ago.
The Artemis II crew includes NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who landed in Florida from Houston on Friday.
NASA will provide launch coverage at 12:50 p.m. ET, then hold a post-launch news conference about 2.5 hours after liftoff.
