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The agency has bumped up the wet dress rehearsal to increase its chances of launching within the February window, but could an Arctic blast interfere?
NASA had planned to run its wet dress rehearsal for the Artemis II mission at Kennedy Space Center as early as Saturday, but it will have to thread the needle before temperatures drop below the
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NASA's Artemis II readies for moon return after 54 years of Apollo 17: Here's the latest on mission
Artemis II prepares for launch in early February, marking the first crewed mission towards the moon since Apollo 17.
NASA’s SLS and Orion rolled to the launch pad for the Artemis 2 mission Jan. 17, though uncertainty remains about when the mission will be ready to launch.
The rocket is about to traverse four miles to the launchpad — at about 1 mph.
Before NASA can decide a rocket launch date for Artemis 2, the giant SLS rocket has to ace a critical fueling test known as a wet dress rehearsal.
American space agency NASA said it fixed one of the RS-25 engines that was supposed to be part of the Artemis II mission, will now fly on Artemis IV.