miles beyond it, further than any spacecraft intended to carry humans. cameras inside and outside orion will document the trip because this crew is unmanned but not unmannequined. a suited mannequin that will collect data on what future human crews might experience as nasa prepares for a lunar landing in 2025. we re sending mannequins into space. i suppose maybe that s been done before. none of this happens if the weather doesn t cooperate. i m sure nasa is on pins and needles about all of this. how is it looking for tomorrow? reporter: that s right, jim. when it comes to rocket launches everyone s eyes are on mother nature and right now nasa is saying that the conditions are 80% favorable for a launch tomorrow morning. the launch window opens at 8:33 a.m. eastern time and the countdown clock has already started, jim, so people are pretty optimistic this will take flight, the weather will not be the deciding factor but, also, a lot of folks are concerned about the fact that
test mission are to test the heat shield of the orion spacecraft. they have to make sure that heat shield is able to withstand the 5,000-degree temperatures that it will experience when it re-enters the earth as atmosphere. also, as i mentioned, this rocket has never flown so they need to make sure the vehicle is working properly. also, they want to check and they want to run through retrieval of the orion spacecraft. there s some avionics onboard they re hoping to use on artemis 2, the first crewed mission of this program. so they are hoping to achieve a lot with this mission. no crew onboard, but they have some mannequins, moon-equins, as you mentioned, to measure the vibrations and sounds. several will be measuring the radiation the crew will experience on these lunar journeys, jim. fingers crossed that this launch
miles beyond it, further than any spacecraft intended to carry humans. cameras inside and outside orion will document the trip because this crew is unmanned but not unmannequined. a suited mannequin that will collect data on what future human crews might experience as nasa prepares for a lunar landing in 2025. we re sending mannequins into space. i suppose maybe that s been done before. none of this happens if the weather doesn t cooperate. i m sure nasa is on pins and needles about all of this. how is it looking for tomorrow? reporter: that s right, jim. when it comes to rocket launches everyone s eyes are on mother nature and right now nasa is saying that the conditions are 80% favorable for a launch tomorrow morning. the launch window opens at 8:33 a.m. eastern time and the