The launch of NASA's Artemis 'mega moon rocket' has been pushed out more than a month, likely to mid-October, after Saturday's (Sept.
NASA declared that it had fixed the problem, which the agency said was caused by a faulty sensor that incorrectly reported the temperature inside the engine as being much higher, and much further from flight-ready, than it actually was., a hydrogen fuel leak from one of the rocket's core-stage engines, was far more serious, requiring a rollback to fix.
Artemis 2 will make the same journey as Artemis 1, but with a four-person human crew, and Artemis 3 will send the first woman and the first person of color to land on the moon, on the lunar south pole.The technical difficulties for NASA's moon rocket began months before the scheduled launch. "Given our estimate of a US$4.1 billion per-launch cost of the SLS/Orion system for at least the first four Artemis missions, NASA must accelerate its efforts to identify ways to make its Artemis-related programs more affordable," Martin said in March 1 testimony before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
"This is an incredibly hard business," Sarafin said."This is an initial test flight of this vehicle. As was said, we're going to fly when we're ready. And as part of this initial test flight, we're learning the vehicle. We're learning how to operate the vehicle."
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