6/21/2023 0 Comments Launch time tonight"But if Wednesday is not the right day, we will take that next hurdle, that next trial, and persevere through that." And we hope that that is on Wednesday," Sarafin says. He says because the Artemis team has persevered through all of these recent setbacks, "that gives me comfort that we're going to be ready when it's our time to fly." "I asked if there were any dissenting opinions, there were none, and we accepted that flight rationale." "We went through that today and we closed that action item," Sarafin told reporters during a conference call on Monday. Some caulking material, which appears as a bright white strip just above the thin black line, got torn off in the winds. This close-up view of the rocket shows damage from Hurricane Nicole. Next, Hurricane Ian rolled in and forced the rocket to roll back to its hangar, which Parsons called "a bit of a let-down." After that, leaks of hydrogen fuel required the agency to make repairs. The Artemis rocket's initial launch attempt, in August, got called off because of a faulty engine sensor. The agency has not launched a space vehicle designed to send astronauts to the moon since 1972. The problem was traced to a faulty Ethernet switch, and this needed fixing as well.Ī successful launch would be a key milestone for NASA's Artemis program, which aims to put the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface. The bedeviled team then learned that a critical radar site had suffered a loss of signal. They tightened some bolts on a valve that apparently may have been "visibly loose," according to part of an exchange captured on a hot mic, and solved the problem. This time around, mission managers sent "red crew" of three workers out to the launch pad, to the bottom of the dangerous, fully-fueled rocket.
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