NASA’s Artemis 1 Launch To Be Streamed Worldwide By Felix & Paul Studios

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To the moon, Alice. No, Ralph Kramden isn’t involved, but that’s where NASA is headed, as it prepares its long-awaited launch of Artemis 1.

That’s the renewable vehicles program that is the great hope for sending future manned missions back to the moon and potentially Mars.To celebrate the program’s launch – delayed by funding issues several times – the Emmy-winning Felix & Paul Studios are planning to livestream the unmanned launch of the first vehicle on Aug.

29 via several platforms. It will mark the first test flight of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) and the complete Orion spacecraft that will someday carry a manned crew.

Several tests and a satellite deployment are part of the mission before its return to earth and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.After this mission, Artemis 2 will do a lunar flyby with a crew, and then Artemis 3 will have a manned lunar landing, the first in five decades since the Apollo program.The launch viewing will be in an immersive 360° format and accessible in Virtual Reality on Meta Quest, on Facebook 360, and in a worldwide coalition of domes and planetariums where space fans can gather for a mobile experience.