When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky[embedded content]NASA will give an update about its Artemis 2 moon launch plans today (March 12), and you can watch it live.The agency will hold a briefing today at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) at its Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, “to highlight progress toward the Artemis 2 crewed mission around the moon,” according to a March 9 statement.AdvertisementAdvertisementYou can watch the briefing live here at Space.com courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency.NASA’s Artemis 2 SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft stand vertical on mobile launcher 1 at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 10, 2026. | Credit: NASA/Ben SmegelskyArtemis 2 will send four astronauts — NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen — on a 10-day trip around the moon and back home again. It will be the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.NASA had hoped to launch Artemis 2 this month, and seemed on track to do so after successfully completing a fueling test on KSC’s Pad 39B in late February.Just after that test, however, a problem popped up — an interruption in the flow of helium in the upper stage of Artemis 2’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. So the mission team rolled the Artemis 2 stack off Pad 39B and back to KSC’s cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for repairs.AdvertisementAdvertisementLast week, NASA announced that this work was going well, potentially keeping Artemis 2 on track for launch in the next available window, which opens on April 1.We’ll learn more during today’s update, which will come after completion of the Artemis 2 flight readiness review. Participants in the briefing are:Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator, Exploration Systems Development Mission DirectorateJohn Honeycutt, chair, Artemis 2 Mission Management TeamShawn Quinn, manager, Exploration Ground Systems ProgramNorm Knight, director, Flight Operations Directorate …
