After three attempts to run through a test of the Space Launch System, engineers spotted a leak and a faulty valve. The fixes may delay the first Artemis moon mission.
to have their massive moon-bound Space Launch System ready for liftoff in a couple of months, but so far they’ve encountered some bumps in the road. On March 17, NASAout onto the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to ready it for the Artemis program’s inaugural lunar mission later this year.
“The mega moon rocket is still doing very well. The one check valve is literally the only real issue we’ve seen so far. We’re very proud of the rocket,” said Tom Whitmeyer, a deputy associate administrator at NASA headquarters in Washington, at a press conference this afternoon. “But we have a little bit more work in front of us.”
The test itself began on April 1, after the rocket had been ferried from the assembly building to Launch Complex 39B via an enormous crawler. Jeff Spaulding, the senior NASA test director, and his team began their process by hooking up the rocket’s electrical power and pressurization systems and filling the pair of white boosters on the side with propellants.
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