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NASA early Tuesday announced it was pushing the launch date of its Artemis II mission to March, after engineers encountered a leak during a critical test.
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Artemis II, which is expected to become the first crewed flight into deep space since Apollo 17 in 1972, has launch opportunities March 6-9 and March 11.
Before NASA can decide a rocket launch date for Artemis 2, the giant SLS rocket has to ace a critical fueling test known as a wet dress rehearsal.
NASA’s wet dress rehearsal—a crucial test of the agency’s Artemis II mission to the moon—hit a snag on Monday. Engineers had been fueling the mission’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket up with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant and planned to initiate a countdown sequence to simulate the launch.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 team has entered a carefully controlled two-week quarantine as the countdown begins for their journey to the International Space Station. The four astronauts—representing NASA, the European Space Agency,
Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX appears to have a busy month planned for February at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
NASA's Artemis II mission reached a critical milestone this week as teams conducted a wet dress rehearsal of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft during an unusually intense blast of cold air surged across Florida, delivering record-breaking low temperatures to the Sunshine State.