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Why NASA's Artemis 2 moon shot will slip to March
Though NASA was optimistic about launching four astronauts on a trip around the moon as early as Friday, the space agency is now looking at March after complications during a key preflight test. As it ...
NASA defended preparations for Artemis 2 after a fueling test had hydrogen leaks like those that bedeviled Artemis 1 more ...
Shortly after 2 a.m. ET on Tuesday, NASA announced that it would forgo February’s launch window (which lasted until Feb. 11) for the Artemis II mission around the moon to allow teams to review data ...
NASA announced the delay of Artemis II, a mission that will send four astronauts on a 10-day trip around the moon and back to Earth, to March after engineers noticed a hydrogen leak in the rocket.
A hydrogen leak during the wet dress rehearsal for Artemis 2 has forced NASA to forego the February launch window and work toward March instead.
NASA pushed its Artemis II mission to March after wrapping up a launch rehearsal that uncovered issues with the massive Space ...
During the two-day dress rehearsal, running through launch-day procedures, crews found a liquid hydrogen leak in part of the ...
NASA completed a wet dress rehearsal for the Artemis II mission in the early morning hours on Feb. 3. To allow teams to review data and conduct a second wet dress rehearsal, NASA will now target March ...
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SLS fueling rehearsal puts Artemis 2’s lunar flyby timeline on the line
More than 700,000 gallons of cryogenic propellant that will pass through Space Launch System plumbing will flow, we will never get a single astronaut into the cabin of Orion, and that is the point. In ...
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 ...
However, NASA has not yet chosen an official launch date, and will not do so until the Artemis II stack passes its Wet Dress ...
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