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NASA: Moon rocket endured hurricane, set for 1st test flight
12Nov By adminNo Comments
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NASA: Moon rocket endured hurricane, set for 1st test flight

[ad_1] NASA's moon rocket needs only minor repairs after enduring a hurricane at the pad and is on track for its first test flight next week, a top official said Friday. NASA's moon rocket needs only minor repairs after enduring a hurricane at the pad and is on track for its first test flight next week, a top official said Friday.“Right now, there's nothing preventing us" from attempting a launch on Wednesday, said NASA's Jim Free, an associate administrator. The wind never exceeded the rocket's design limits as Hurricane Nicole swept through Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, according to Free. But he acknowledged if the launch team had known in advance that a hurricane was going to hit, they likely would have kept the rocket indoors. The rocket was moved out to the pad late last week...
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NASA eyes November 12, or 27, for Moon rocket launch attempt
1Oct By adminNo Comments
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NASA eyes November 12, or 27, for Moon rocket launch attempt

[ad_1] NASA has announced it was preparing its next launch window for between November 12 and November 27. NASA said Friday it would try to launch its Moon mega-rocket in November, without committing to a precise date for the much-delayed Artemis 1 mission. The US space agency, which was forced to postpone its latest liftoff attempt due to massive Hurricane Ian which hammered Florida this week, announced it was preparing its next launch window for between November 12 and November 27. "Over the coming days," NASA said in a blog post, the team will assess conditions and necessary work and "identify a specific date for the next launch attempt." Officials had so far refused to completely shut the door on an earlier attempt...
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After fiascos, when will NASA’s Artemis Moon rocket be launched?
28Sep By adminNo Comments
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After fiascos, when will NASA’s Artemis Moon rocket be launched?

[ad_1] It will be "difficult" for NASA to make a new attempt to launch its massive Moon rocket in October. It will be "difficult" for NASA to make a new attempt to launch its massive Moon rocket in October, an official from the US space agency said Tuesday, with a lift-off in November looking more likely. The SLS rocket, the most powerful ever designed by NASA, had to be returned overnight to its storage hangar in order to shelter it from the approach of Hurricane Ian. The next possible launch windows -- determined according to the positions of the Earth and the Moon -- are from October 17 to 31, then from November 12 to 27. "We know that the earliest it could go is late October, but more than likely we'll go in the wi...
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NASA Set For 2nd Attempt At Artemis 1 Lunar Launch
3Sep By adminNo Comments
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NASA Set For 2nd Attempt At Artemis 1 Lunar Launch

[ad_1] Artemis aims to return astronauts to the moon's surface as early as 2025.Cape Canaveral: Ground teams at Kennedy Space Center prepared on Saturday for a second try at launching NASA's towering, next-generation moon rocket on its debut flight, hoping to have remedied engineering problems that foiled the initial countdown five days earlier.The 32-story tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its Orion capsule were due for blastoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 2:17 p.m. EDT (1817 GMT), kicking off NASA's ambitious moon-to-Mars program Artemis program 50 years after the last Apollo lunar mission. (Graphic: https://tmsnrt.rs/3PPRsbN)The previous launch bid on Monday ended with technical problems forcing a halt to the countdown and postponement of the uncrewed flight.Tests indicat...
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Nasa’s Artemis 1 launch postponed! Engine scraps light the candle moment
30Aug By adminNo Comments
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Nasa’s Artemis 1 launch postponed! Engine scraps light the candle moment

[ad_1] Nasa has postponed the launch of its Artemis 1 mission from the Kennedy Space Center due to a malfunction in one of the engines. The Artemis 1 mission was due for launch at 6:03pm IST yesterday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. However, Nasa postponed the launch due to a technical snag. Despite all the attempts to launch, Nasa ultimately scrapped the launch. NASA administrator Bill Nelson said, “We don't launch until it's right. This is a very complicated machine. You don't want to light the candle until it's ready to go.” The Artemis missions are Nasa's attempt to send man back to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.According to Nasa, yesterday's launch was postponed...
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