Where is Artemis 1 launching from? What is Artemis 1 going to do?

The Artemis I mission, which includes the Space Launch System Rocket and the Orion spacecraft, is scheduled to launch on August 29 between 8:33 a.m. ET and 10:33 a.m. ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The primary goal of Artemis 1 is to achieve a safe capsule atmospheric entry, descent, splashdown, and recovery.

Artemis 1 will last six weeks and will test all of the rocket stages and spacecraft used in subsequent Artemis missions.

Artemis 2 will perform a crewed lunar flyby after the Artemis 1 mission, and Artemis 3 will perform a crewed lunar landing.

The mission will deploy ten CubeSat satellites after reaching orbit and performing a trans-lunar injection and the Orion spacecraft will enter a distant retrograde orbit for six days.

The Orion spacecraft will then return to Earth, reenter the atmosphere, and splash down in the Pacific Ocean, protected by its heat shield.

NASA will hold a post-launch briefing after the launch, and later that day, the agency will share the first Earth views from cameras aboard the Orion spacecraft.