RELATED: Tropical Storm Ian strengthens, projected to make landfall in Florida as major Category 3 hurricane That gave the launch team the confidence to proceed with a Tuesday launch attempt, officials said.
Fuel leaks and other technical problems scrapped the first two tries, in late August and early September.Īlthough hydrogen fuel seeped past newly installed seals during Wednesday’s dress rehearsal, the launch team got the leakage down to acceptable levels by slowing the flow and reducing the pressure in the lines. This would've been the third launch attempt for the Space Launch System rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA. RELATED: Artemis I Mission: Here is when NASA could attempt to launch Artemis I rocket again "I don’t think we’re cutting it close," Whitmeyer told reporters. It takes three days of preparations to get the rocket back into Kennedy Space Center’s mammoth Vehicle Assembly Building, a 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) trip lasting several hours. It will be the first time a crew capsule orbits the moon in 50 years the spacecraft will carry mannequins but no astronauts. Managers on Friday declared that the rocket is now ready to blast off on its first test flight, after overcoming more hydrogen leaks during a fueling test earlier in the week.
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