US EditionArtemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal Slated for Thursday, NASA Says
NASA’s nearly 50-hour second wet dress rehearsal includes fueling with 700,000 gallons of propellant to verify fixes after hydrogen leaks before setting a March launch date.
- NASA is planning a second wet dress rehearsal for the Artemis II test flight on Thursday, involving loading over 700,000 gallons of fuel onto the rocket.
- The countdown will proceed to within 33 seconds of a simulated launch, with multiple holds and resets.
- NASA previously conducted a confidence test last Thursday, encountering issues with hydrogen leaks that prematurely ended the first rehearsal.
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NASA moves forward with Artemis II tanking test that could set up moonshot mission
NASA is set to begin fueling 700,000 gallons of cryogenic propellant on the Space Launch System rocket at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday as it moves ahead with a test countdown of the Artemis II mission.
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NASA starts countdown clock for second Artemis II wet dress rehearsal after rocky first attempt
NASA will attempt to fuel its Artemis II rocket again tomorrow after hydrogen leaks derailed the first wet dress rehearsal and delayed what is scheduled to be a historic crewed flight around the moon.
The human being will return to the Moon after more than 50 years.The Artemis II mission will take off in March 2026 and send four astronauts on a journey of 1.1 million kilometers around the natural satellite.The crew will be composed of Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch of NASA, and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency.They will travel for ten days on the Orion spacecraft, which will function as their home and working center …
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