NASA will roll Artemis 2 moon rocket out to the launch pad on March 19

An orange rocket sits on a mobile scaffold as it rolls out of a large white building with the American flag and NASA meatball logo on the side.

Update for 9:50 p.m. ET on March 18: NASA now says that it will hit its original target rollout date of March 19, thanks to faster-than-expected work on the Artemis 2 stack in the Vehicle Assembly Building. The rollout is expected to begin around 8 p.m. EDT on March 19 and last up to 12 hours. The story below was written after NASA pushed rollout back a day, to March 20.

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