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Artemis 1 Virtual Launch Party!
August 29, 2022 @ 7:30 am - 7:30 pm
The Creative Learning Alliance is thrilled to be an official virtual launch party site for Artemis 1.
You are invited!!!!
To our Artemis 1 Launch Party, Monday, August 29th at 6:30 PM at the Creative Learning Lab, 905 Main! Only $5 per kiddo!
We will watch the launch together, have some fun rocket building activities, see samples of actual batteries made RIGHT HERE in Joplin at Eagle Picher, hear from their engineers about how their batteries function within the rocket, and attendees will get amazing swag from NASA!!! They sent us interactive comic books, stickers, bookmarks, “make the rocket” books, mission patches, enamel pins, and tons of mission and rocket info!
Home school moms and dads, we’ll be at the lab at 7:30 AM to watch the launch LIVE if you would like to join us!
See our Facebook page @creativelearningalliance to register!
Note from NASA: The given launch date for the Artemis I mission is only estimated (TBD).
July 2: Jim Free, associate administrator with the agency’s Explorations Systems Development program, said this week NASA is working toward an August 23rd to September 6th launch window for Artemis 1.
“That’s the one we’re targeting,” Free told the outlet. “We’d be foolish not to target that right now. We made incredible progress last week.”
Artemis 1 is a planned uncrewed test flight for NASA’s Artemis program. It is the first flight of the agency’s Space Launch System super heavy-lift launch vehicle and the first flight of the Orion MPCV (Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle).
The uncrewed Artemis I mission will launch from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39B and is the first integrated flight test of NASA’s Artemis deep space exploration systems. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, the mission will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate NASA’s commitment and capability to establish a long-term presence on the Moon and beyond.
NASA will set an official target launch date after a successful wet dress rehearsal test – one of the final tests before launch involving fuel loaded into the rocket – currently planned for late February.
The date here is TBD (To Be Determined) and will be adjusted soon as a new target date is announced.
Formerly known as Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), the mission was renamed after the introduction of the Artemis program. The launch will be held at Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B) at the Kennedy Space Center, where an Orion spacecraft will be sent on a mission of 25.5 days, 6 of those days in a retrograde orbit around the Moon.
The mission will certify the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System launch vehicle for crewed flights beginning with the second flight test of the Orion and Space Launch System, Artemis 2.