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The Ares 1-X Rocket is scheduled to Launch Pad 39-B on TUESDAY beginning at 12:01 AM for a new dawn of spaceflight. The rocket will be televised on the seven-hour roll-out and launch on NASA-TV. More from Reuters.
NASA Invites Media to View Historic Ares 1-X Move :

“Reporters are invited to cover the historic Ares I-X rocket move to Launch Pad 39B on Oct. 19 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The first flight test of NASA’s Constellation Program, Ares I-X is targeted to launch on Oct. 27. First motion for Ares I-X out of Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad is targeted for 12:01 a.m. EDT on Oct. 19. The 4.2-mile journey is expected to take approximately seven hours. Activities include a first motion photo and interview opportunities with Ares I-X managers. In addition, a sunrise photo opportunity will be available at 7 a.m.”

The Ares 1-x flight may help determine the next program of human spaceflight that the American space industry will be asked to undertake by President Barrack Obama and Washington Congressional policymakers.

If the Ares booster continues to have the space agency leadership support, it may well boost the Orion crew capsule that will carry the next American astronauts to orbit around the Moon. The United States first put humans in orbit around the Moon in 1968 and has not returned them to lunar orbit in more than thirty-seven years. No other nation has placed humans around the Moon.