On account of chilly climate and windy situations shifting by Florida, NASA is now targeting Monday, February 2nd for a moist costume rehearsal of the Artemis II House Launch System (SLS) rocket. Relying on how Monday’s rehearsal goes, NASA will doubtlessly set a launch date for Artemis II. However on account of the weather-related delays, NASA says February sixth and seventh “are not viable alternatives” for a launch. Sunday, February eighth will as a substitute be the primary potential window.
NASA initially deliberate to conduct the moist costume rehearsal for the rocket this weekend, which is presently stacked with the Orion spacecraft on Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy House Middle. The 49 hour rehearsal contains fueling the rocket (therefore the time period moist) and a simulated countdown that ends 33 seconds earlier than launch. In the course of the rehearsal NASA engineers will take a look at emergency escape procedures on the launch website and gather knowledge from the SLS. A full moist rehearsal should be accomplished earlier than the Artemis II mission might be cleared for launch subsequent week.
The Artemis I mission efficiently launched on November sixteenth, 2022, and lasted a little bit over 25 days earlier than splashing down again on Earth on December eleventh, 2022. It was initially scheduled to launch in late 2016, however faced several delays over the years. The Artemis I mission was uncrewed and used to check the SLS rocket and Orion capsule in house. Artemis II will as a substitute carry four astronauts — Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman — on a 10-day mission flying across the moon. Artemis III would be the first mission to land astronauts on the moon since Apollo 17 touched down on the lunar floor on December eleventh, 1972.
