The Artemis 1 moon mission will attempt to launch again.
Mission managers met on Monday to discuss the flight readiness of the Artemis 1's Space Launch System after Hurricane Nicole caused slight damage to the rocket. There's no change in the plan to launch on the 16th despite the fact that a band of caulking was damaged by high winds during the storm's landfall.
Jeremy Parsons, deputy manager of NASA's Exploration Ground Systems program at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, said that the unanimous recommendation was that they were in a good position to launch. The Artemis 1 mission is scheduled to launch from Launch Pad 39B at 1:04 a.m. on Tuesday. On the 16th of November. The launch of Artemis 1 can be watched live on Space.com by NASA.
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One of the main areas of concern was a strip of caulking called RTV which is designed to smooth out a small gap in the exterior of the spaceship. There was a 10-foot section of RTV taken away by high winds. There were concerns that the missing caulking could cause unwanted air flow that could lead to excess heating during flight. Artemis 1 mission managers feel that the vehicle is still flightworthy after they reviewed the issue and performed multiple analyses.
"We looked across the entire vehicle stack, all the way down to the base of the stack, and we agreed that the risk is bound by current hazard and hazard reports that we have out there," she said.
It may not be our day if we have an issue that causes us to meet one of our no-go criteria.
There is a great deal to be proud of in regards to how the Artemis 1 teams have persevered through the mission's many setbacks.
The team is firing on all cylinders, and so I am proud of them. If you were to ask me a few weeks ago, I would have said that the chances of us going through a storm like Hurricane Nicole and being in good shape were very low. The team has been on fire.
The Artemis 1 will see the launch of an uncrewed spaceship into the moon. The goal of the mission is to lay the groundwork for future Artemis missions that will see humankind return to the moon and establish a sustainable human presence there.
Artemis 2 will see a human crew placed around the moon no earlier than 2023, while Artemis 3 will see astronauts leave footprints on the moon once again.
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