Countdown for tomorrow's Artemis-II Moon mission with 4 astronauts begins : NASA

Chennai, March 31 -- The countdown for tomorrow NASA's Artemis-II Moon mission with four Astronauts began on Tuesday.

In an update, NASA today said the countdown for test flight is underway at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with members of the launch team arriving at their consoles inside the Rocco Petrone Launch Control Center.

The onsite countdown clock started ticking down at 4:44 p.m. EDT (IST 02.14 AM) to a targeted launch time of 6:24 p.m on Wednesday, April 1 (IST 3.54 AM on April 2).

Artemis II is the first crewed launch of NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft.

Artemis II is NASA's first crewed mission under the Artemis program and will launch from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Flori...