NASA has reserved three days in late August and early September for the first launch of its Space Launch System rocket to send the Orion spacecraft to orbit around the moon and back.
At a July 20 briefing, NASA officials announced that they had target launch dates of Aug. 29, Sept. 2 and Sept. 5 for the Artemis 1 mission, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft and the first launch of the SLS. Orion will spend up to six weeks in cislunar space before splashing down off the coast of San Diego.
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The three launch attempts each present different mission durations and launch timings, NASA officials said. The Aug. 29 launch opportunity would open at 8:33 a.m. EDT (1333 GMT) and last two hours; assuming Artemis 1 launches successfully, the Orion capsule would return to Earth after 42 days for a splashdown on Oct. 10.