The launch is scheduled for 833pm Taiwan time today (8:33 a.m. Eastern time ), but in case of unfavorable weather or technical glitches, the liftoff can be pushed back as much as two hours.
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Live video coverage
https://www.nasa.gov/content/live-coverage-of-nasas-artemis-i-mission-to-the-moon
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This is the reason why FAA keeps stonewalling Starship. Gotta keep those congressmen and constituents happy.
Should have just put people on this one.
Male or female? Or what’s the right pronoun?
I’m guessing nonbinary…? 
Although apparently one of the experiments is going to be testing female dummies for the effects of exposure to space radiation, which apparently is much more harmful to women.
That non-binary is more handsome/pretty than most humans.
The full lips are a nice touch.
Prostates aren’t especially welcoming to radiation
Yes, but overall women are at much higher risk of cancer from space radiation exposure, which is why they’re given shorter rotations on the ISS.
Well apparently space radiation isn’t woke enough to understand self-identification.
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Launch scrubbed for today.
Next available window for launch
- Taiwan time 3 September 12:48am
- (2 September 12:48pm Eastern time)
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That crack in the tank should might be checked out.
The FAA isn’t stonewalling Starship, at all. They’ve given them a whole metric shit ton of latitude for breaking the rules.
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Second attempt sometime tonight.
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In 2025, the agency plans to launch Artemis 3, which will put boots down near the lunar south pole, the site of the envisioned research base. Artemis 3 will be the first crewed lunar landing since the final Apollo mission in 1972, and the first ever to put a woman and a person of color down on the moon.
Because everyone should have the fantasy of getting off this hot, stinking rock.