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NASA is no longer planning a February launch of the Artemis 2 mission after encountering hydrogen leaks during a fueling test of the Space Launch System.
According to Space.com, there are five potential launch dates available in March for Artemis 2, which will lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida: March 6-9 and March 11. If the mission can’t make any of those dates, another window opens in April, with launch possible on April 1, April 3-6 and April 30.
NASA's Artemis II mission reached a critical milestone this week as teams conducted a wet dress rehearsal of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft during an unusually intense blast of cold air surged across Florida, delivering record-breaking low temperatures to the Sunshine State.
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Artemis II’s quarantine window turns crew health into a launch system
In the case of the Artemis II, a cold will act as a hardware fault: it may stop a complex system that otherwise is ready to do something. It is the reason why four-person crew consisting of Reid Wiseman,
The mission, called Artemis II, will send a crew in the Orion capsule to verify that its life-support, navigation, communications, and flight systems work as designed in deep space. The astronauts are Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch of NASA, and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency.
The first humans stepped on the moon in 1972, and since then, no one has back. Now, NASA is taking the steps to get back to the surface of the moon, this time with bigger plans in mind for the future of space exploration.