KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – After a few weeks of repairs and high winds in the final hours forcing another 4 hours of delays that stretched into Friday, March 20, NASA at last completed the 2^nd rollout of  the agency’s Artemis II SLS Moon rocket and Orion spacecraft from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) back out to launch pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center just before noon.

At 11:21 a.m. EDT on Friday, March 20, NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft arrived at Launch Pad 39B after an 11-hour journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 began its 4-mile trek with the integrated SLS and Orion stacked on top of the mobile launcher at 12:20 a.m. EDT. Moving at a maximum speed of just 0.82 mph, the crawler carried the 322-foot-tall Moon rocket and spacecraft slowly and steadily toward the pad.

The exciting rollout took place after a few weeks of necessary and critical repairs on the rocket inside the VAB to fix the helium flow clog that scrubbed plans to launch the rocket in early March.

A live feed of the rollout is available on NASA’s YouTube channel.

Enjoy our gallery of rollout photos of the Artemis II mega moon rocket taken by Ken Kremer and Jean Wright for Space UpClose

Artemis II will send NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on an approximately 10-day mission around the Moon and back, marking the first crewed flight of the Artemis program.

They will travel 500,000 miles in a loop around the Moon – farther than any human before

Ken Kremer recent TV interviews:

I was also interviewed live by Fox 35 Orlando at 11:30 am ET March 19, about updating the status of NASA Artemis II rollout from VAB to launch pad 39B – as the winds were howling on the Florida Space Coast, just abit below the weather criteria limit of 40 knots

Complete live interview video:

https://www.fox35orlando.com/video/fmc-vihrm1hbp25zq1hj

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/could-nasa-s-artemis-2-rollout-get-delayed-again/vi-AA1YZVXO?ocid=BingNewsVerp

https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/could-nasas-artemis-2-rollout-160318868.html

Wesh 2 NBC Orlando Mar 25:

https://www.wesh.com/article/nasa-shifts-focus-to-moon-missions-iss-retirement-looms/70848583

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