launch, that i think she is hoping will still happen. again, we re still waiting to see if it will take place. mars, professor, how realistic at this point? well, we re going on stage one, stage two, so on and so forth. artemis i is the launch we re seeing today. artemis ii is when we go around the moon with live astronauts. artemis iii is when we actually land on the moon with a person of color and a woman. and artemis iv is the permanent presence on another celestial body. all of which will go towards going to mars some time after 2030. we have to look at the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. we re talking not just about the moon and forgetting about it. we re talking about going onto mars, having a permanent presence on another celestial body. you re looking at live pictures right now of artemis i. that s a huge rocket.
space center where the uncrewed artemis i mission is scheduled to lift off between 8:33 and 10:33 a.m. here s the thing, there are technical issues right now. a hydrogen leak and potentially an engine problem threatening this morning s launch. the plan is for artemis one to eventually fly around the moon with three mannequins, including one named commander moonequin. nearly 50 years ago apollo went to the moon. the artemis plans to land humans on the lunar south pole of the moon in the next few years and ultimately serve as a way to get to mars. lets get the very latest on where things stand right now at the kennedy space center. cnn s kristin fisher is there. what can you tell us? reporter: well, guys, i think it s important to remember that this is only a test flight. it is the very first time this
little context. that is that this airline flies literally thousands of routes every single day. the number of crews, the number of flights actually investigated for any kind of safety concerns is very small. john, brianna? scott, thank you for that. cnn s coverage of the scrubbed artemis i moon rocket launch continues right now. good monday morning, everyone. glad you re with us. i m poppy harlow. i m jim sciutto. a launch 50 years in the making will now have to wait at least a few days. the artemis i was scheduled to lift off this morning from kennedy space center for a journey around the moon. launch director charlie blackwell thompson has called a scrub of the attempt of the launch of artemis i and the space launch system with the orion spacecraft.
properly for a mission this complex. remember, you re sitting on a million gallons of high-octane rocket fuel. that could go up like a roman candle with one little spark. we have to prove that all the parts can move correctly, all the moving parts can be shown to move correctly and we can go to the moon, we can go onto mars without endangering our astr astronauts. it s quite a thing, miles, we re looking at on the screen here, the sls rocket with the orion orbiter. people may look at this and see some familiar things on this, quite literally? yeah. it s kind of a mashup between a shuttle and saturn v. what you see at the top is the orion capsule built by lockheed martin. that s all new. beneath it are pieces and parts from the shuttle program and also from the delta launch program to integrate into this system. so, when michio talks about the idea of testing the system, these are all been tested. some of these engines have flown
several of them may put the artemis i s launch at risk. we ll speak with a former astronaut who spent more than 100 days in space when our coverage continues. discover is accepted at 99% of places in the u.s. [ only wanna be with you by hootie & the blowfish]