'It’s always a hard thing to do to send the Red Team out to the launch pad,” ground systems program manager Mike Bolger said of sending the 'Red Team' to fix a leak on Artemis. “You only do it when you feel you have to.'
NASA on Wednesday defended its decision to send a “Red Team” of technicians into a potentially dangerous blast zone to fix a leak in the Artemis rocket fueling system while the rocket was nearly full of fuel just before launch.
Bolger said the team “recognized we had a leak and were able to get a camera on it although it wasn’t a great view. We could see some vapors. There were options where we wouldn’t have to send a Red Team out there … but the team … had actually really written a procedure on how they’d do that.” “You only do it when you feel you have to,” Bolger said, “but, in this case, I think the team felt that, really, our most likely case here was we just had some loose nuts on those valves. And so we sent the team out and they did a terrific job and we got that issue resolved.”
“It’s been a little over 12 years since I got to experience this,” Honeycutt said referring to the last shuttle launch, “and it’s awesome to be back in the business of doing it. We’ve laid the foundation for a program… the rocket performed outstandingly.”
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