NASA Delays Artemis II Launch Following Wet Dress Rehearsal

As US readied next moon mission, something dangerous caught Nasa off guard

Four astronauts are to fly around the moon and back, but hydrogen leaks push planned launch to at least March.

NASA examining hydrogen leaks during Artemis 2 fueling test

NASA officials defended their preparations for the Artemis 2 mission after a fueling test experienced the same type of hydrogen leaks that bedeviled Artemis 1 more than three years ago. The post NASA examining hydrogen leaks during Artemis 2 fueling test appeared first on SpaceNews.

While NASA’s lunar dreams wait, another crew eyes orbit

NASA’s first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years won’t be getting underway this month after all. It had been targeting February 6 for the launch of the much-anticipated Artemis II mission that will take four astronauts on a flight around the moon, but after issues surfaced during a critical preflight test on Tuesday, […]

NASA delays launch of historic moon mission

The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 30. | Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP/Getty Images via CNN Newsource (CNN) — NASA is now targeting March for the earliest possible launch of its historic Artemis II lunar moon mission, which will send four astronauts into deep space for the first time since the Apollo program ended more than five decades ago. The decision ca…

NASA had 3 years to fix fuel leaks on its Artemis moon rocket. Why are they still happening?

NASA stopped short of completing a critical fuel test for its Artemis 2 SLS rocket because of hydrogen leaks that sound a lot like the problems they had during Artemis 1.