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Artemis I, NASA’s Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft, sits at Launch Pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, Sunday. The launch

of the unmanned test flight on a moon-orbit mission is scheduled for 8:33 a.m. Monday EDT, with NASA forecasting an 80% chance of launch.

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FAIRFIELD — The annual Prime Rib in the Park has been a reliable fundraising event for local groups over the past 17 years. It returned Saturday for another evening of entertaining and dining for a good cause. Proceeds from the sellout event this year go to benefit the Fairfield Police Activities League. The nonprofit has been working hard

to get into its new site at 2250 N. Texas St. The city was confronted in the early 2000s with the growing problem of juvenile delinquency. With the help of the community, including law enforcement and local residents, the Fairfield PAL Matt Garcia Youth Center was created. The name has changed to the Fairfield PAL Youth Center. The center provides supervised programs See Center, Page A6

Tribune Content Agency KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Artemis I isn’t just a mission to orbit the moon. It’s the beginning of a new era for NASA that promises to not just return humans to the lunar surface, but to press on to Mars. “We are explorers and adventurers as a species,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at a news conference Saturday. “That basically is the fulfillment of our destiny. But in that exploration, we’re going to learn new things and develop new things that are going to improve – just as it’s been under our space program – our lives here on Earth.” That’s the high-minded end goal of the Artemis program, originally announced by President Obama in 2012, but pushed forward by both President Trump and Biden, on a timeline that will last through at least the next five presidential terms with humans walking on Mars by 2040 if not earlier, Nelson said. Bhavya Lal, NASA associate administrator for technology, policy and strategy, said the program has a “politically resilient architecture” that can help see the missions through. “NASA is at a historic inflection point, poised to begin the most significant series of science and human exploration missions in over a generation,” she said. That future, though, relies on the success of Monday’s planned launch of the first Artemis flight, when the Space Launch System rocket topped with the Orion spacecraft looks to lift off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B during a two-hour window that opens at 8:33 a.m.

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The 17th annual Prime Rib in the Park draws 240 people to McNaughton Park in Fairfield to raise money for the Police Activities League, Saturday.

An Orion program engineer sits near the Artemis II crew capsule being assembled at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, Sunday. The capsule will carry astronauts on a mission to orbit the moon in the future.

LAUNCH What: Artemis I rocket launch on 42-day mission to the moon When: Monday, during 8:3310:33 a.m. EDT window; backup windows on Friday, Sept. 2 and Monday, Sept. 5 Weather: 70% chance for good conditions Where to watch: Live coverage begins on NASA TV at nasa.gov/ live and its social media channels at 6:30 a.m.

Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron’s forecast calls for a 70% chance for good launch conditions. Backup launch opportunities fall on Sept. 2 and Sept. 5.

Making history If it lights, the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to

lift off from Earth, sending Orion into space with 8.8 million pounds of thrust, surpassing the strength generated during the Apollo launches of the 1960s and ’70s. The uncrewed Orion capsule is on tap for a 42-day mission that will travel more than 1.3 million miles orbiting the moon on a new looping trajectory dozens of times, sending it out nearly 280,000 miles from Earth and 40,000 miles beyond the moon, farther than any human-rated spacecraft has ever flown. The return journey will bring the capsule in hot, traveling at 24,500 mph to reach reentry temperatures near 5,000 degrees before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. “We have a lean-forward strategy on Artemis I because it is an uncrewed test flight,” said Artemis See NASA, Page A6 WEATHER 88 | 58 Sunny. Five-day forecast on B6.

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Omicron Covid booster shots coming What you need to know Tribune Content Agency The next generation of Covid-19 booster shots – tailored specifically to combat the highly infectious family of omicron subvariants – could roll out early next month. The long-in-the-works offering would mark an ambitious new phase in the nation’s vaccination campaign and, officials say, give residents another option to protect themselves ahead of a possible coronavirus resurgence in the fall and winter.

But who will be able to roll up their sleeves this time? And do those who have already received a booster, or two, really need to get another one? Here’s what we know. When will the omicron booster shot be available? The new booster could be available sometime in September, White House Covid-19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said at a recent forum. But the shots will first need to be OK’d by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and See Omicron, Page A6

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