If launch goes as planned (big IF there), the launch is tomorrow evening. Streaming all over the place for those interested. NASA streamed a status news conference yesterday with an overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL3AyQ766vc
Old geezers will get the reference in the title.
NASA has posted a link to their livestream that’ll start around 12:50AM Eastern on April 1st. With lift off scheduled for 6:25PM Eastern.
Allegedly launching a manned moon orbital mission on April Fool’s Day.
Live stream of the pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm8wRjD3xVA
NASA’s stream will start soon as well which will have lots interviews, etc about the mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo
I’ll be watching from the backyard 
First woman to go on moon mission I believe.
Yes you are correct. It is a diverse crew.
Saw the trail from the front yard, but could not get a good pic. We found out during the Shuttle years our street lined up with Kennedy, so 30 seconds after launch it was visible.
Mission stream from NASA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs
Simply an observation and opinion - but the whole NASA channel launch YouTube video production seems to fall short of what Musk’s Space X folks are doing. I mean, NASA needs to get ahold of the SpaceX camera and production technical team and put them to work. I’ve never seen so much glitchy footage and poor production value since the late Apollo launches.
Musk’s team can get streaming 4k+ video form the sides and insides of the rocket, the launch tower, closeups of the engines while operational, the booster return descent, and the back seat of his Tesla without any noticeable frame loss. Meanwhile the NASA feed has seconds of blackness, frame loss, artifacts, and seriously odd angles.
And the timeline visuals and animations…
Sorry, I love me some NASA footage, but this was subpar from what we’ve seen from their competition.
Collaborator lol, SpaceX rocket.
Was expecting better as well.
Agreed, SpaceX --via Starlink terminals on board their rockets-- do have better bandwidth for video than NASA does. I’ll give them some props thought for the pre-launch digital SLS display they used to show the parts of the rocket.
Agreed. Be great if they used the same tech that SpaceX is.
Competition or frenemies?
Yesterday wasn’t a SpaceX rocket. I thought it was too but it was a SLS.
No, Starship isn’t ready yet and Falcon 9 doesn’t have the power to do this mission. Maybe a Falcon Heavy but not sure if the Heavy config is considered human rated.
I read that they couldn’t use Starlink like SpaceX does, because the orbit is higher and out of range of the satellites… had to fall back to using laser comms, which are not wonderful through atmosphere.
Yeah Musk has cameras all over his spacecraft. Makes for a good show!
You could say he likes to… mug for the camera.
