Artemis 1 at Pad 39B
Artemis 1 at Pad 39B Credit: NASA

On Wednesday at around 7:30 a.m. EDT the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission arrived atop Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a nearly 10-hour journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building.

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      1. I have got to ask the following or my curiosity will kill me. Will you be in Boca Chica when Starship flies?

        1. Probably not. I would certainly love to but I’ll be doing TV and other things during that flight.

  1. I thought it funny that NASA made a big deal about how they were “moving up the rollout of Artemis to the pad”. Yes, after a five year delay they moved it up a couple days.

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