“Artemis 1 paves the way forward to the moon and firmly establishes Orion and SLS as our transportation system for crew and cargo for the Artemis program, and yesterday put us on path for Artemis 1.”
tanked the massive Space Launch System rocket with fuel Monday night, getting through most of the last crucial test before its inaugural flight. After reviewing their trove of data from the test, the team will decide this summer’s launch date for the world’sHaving rolled the fully stacked mega-rocket, with the Orion crew capsule on top, out to the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the SLS team began running through a practice countdown called the “wet dress rehearsal test.
While the team indeed met most of those objectives, they didn’t quite follow the planned script. The launch controllers encountered a few technical problems, including a new leak of liquid hydrogen—supercooled down to a frigid -423 degrees Fahrenheit—in the line that connects to the rocket’s core stage. If this were launch day, such a leak would usually trigger the launch computer to hold the countdown.
The launch of the SLS rocket will be just one part of a suite of back-to-the-moon events that kick off this summer. As soon as this Saturday, NASA plans to launch Capstone, a tiny cubesat satellite that will travel the orbital path intended for the Lunar Gateway space station, which is expected to be a staging point for astronauts traveling between Earth and the moon.
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