Eastern time. Last night, we powered up the core stage, all look normal. We had finally shanks on the inner leak tank umbilical, the area that had a leak during countdown launch event one. All passed the test servicemaster umbilical. Could be checks there. Yesterday evening, we completed moving access stands. And began vinyl launch preps for the umbilicals. On our plate today is a series of lunch relief systems checks, charging batteries on flight elements, finishing final walk downs making sure everything looks and is in the appropriate configuration. Weve got a busy afternoon moving everything into final punch configuration. Handrails, heavy equipment, things like that. We will be talking about going into tomorrow and the day of launch. Activities pick up early, 2 00 a. M. , a full clearing of the blessed danger area. We get energy to switch over at 3 30 a. M. , that allows us to go into a tanking meeting at 4 45 am, we expect to get a decision coming out of their at about 5 30. 8 00
[camera shutters] pres. Biden thank you all for your patience. Secretary, thank you. Before we begin, i would like to speak briefly about todays jobs report. It has just been issued. We received more good news. In august, the economy created 315,000 new jobs. The great americans job machine continues to come back, American Workers are back to work earning more, and building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. With todays news, we have now created nearly 10 million new jobs since i took office. Nearly 10 million jobs. The fastest growth in all of american history. In august, we also saw the share of americans working on our economy went up. Economists call that labor force partition participation rate. Working age women are now, for the first time, back at work at rates not seen since before the pandemic. Wages are up, unemployment remains near a 50 year low, and yesterday, we got data that showed manufacturing orders were up but Cost Increases and supply chain items were
Nasas Artemis One Mission to the moon is set to lift off tomorrow afternoon from Kennedy Space center in florida. The first launch was scheduled last monday but was delayed because of an engine problem. Nasa officials held a News Conference today on the status of tomorrows launch. We are aboul our earliest opportunity to launch our space launch system and orion spacecraft. You see them live on launch pad 39 be at Kennedy Space center. Artemis one will be humanitys return to the moon in almost 50 years. Welcome back for another live briefing of our Artemis One Mission. Thank you for being with us. This briefing is to update you on how our countdown is going so far. The two hour launch window opens tomorrow, september 3 at 2 17 eastern time. Last night, we powered up the core stage, all look normal. We had finally shanks on the inner leak tank umbilical, the area that had a leak during countdown launch event one. All passed the test servicemaster umbilical. Could be checks there. Yesterd