Awaiting A Moon Launch

The world is in even much more of a train wreck than when I first reported on this at the end of January, but there might be a launch to the moon tomorrow! At the moment we have 16 hours before launch of the Artemis 2 space rocket that will send four astronauts on a loop around the moon. It’s quite possible the launch will be scrubbed tomorrow due to a mechanical difficulty or weather (there’s a 20% chance of the latter), but the launch window for this month extends a few more day so they’d be able to try again the following day.

I will be following this actively tomorrow afternoon. Trump is scheduled to make some pronouncement about the Iran war in the evening — nobody knows what direction he’ll go on this — and is usurping all broadcasting for that; I will not be watching that. Ugh.