Nasa S Moon Rocket Returns To Launch Site

NASA’s Big Moon rocket is blasting off to the launch pad for the third time – and it’s actually going to blast off to the moon. For once, NASA is ahead of schedule. For the past month and a half, the Space Launch System rocket, which is the most powerful since the Saturn V that carried astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, has been parked in a building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There, technicians are preparing the rocket for its maiden flight, which could take place in two weeks. The move from the building to the launch site was scheduled for Thursday, but NASA announced Monday that the move had been rescheduled for Tuesday afternoon. All of this is leading up to the launch of NASA’s Artemis I mission, an uncrewed test of the giant Orion rocket and spacecraft that will one day house astronauts. What happens during the release and can I watch it? It’s about 4.2 miles from NASA’s massive Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch site, known as Launch Complex 39B. NASA first used the pad during the Apollo program in the 1960s. The rocket and launch tower will be mounted on a giant vehicle that NASA calls a crawler-transporter. It is the same vehicle that carried the Saturn V to the moon landings, but it has been refurbished and upgraded. The crawler does indeed crawl. Larger in area than an infield baseball field and capable of carrying up to 18 million pounds, it will travel at speeds of up to 1 mph over a gravel track to the launch site. The trip will take about 10 hours. NASA began broadcasting the traffic at 3 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday on one of her YouTube channels when the doors to the vehicle assembly building opened. The crawler and rocket could actually start moving around 9 p.m. What happens next? Technicians will make final preparations, including connecting power and propellant lines to the rocket and launch tower. Although the launch is earlier, the target time for the Artemis I launch has not changed: Monday, August 29 at 8:33 AM. EST time. What is the Space Launch System and Orion and why are they important? The Space Launch System and Orion are two of the key elements of NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon in the coming years. Getting there requires a rocket powerful enough to propel a large spacecraft from low Earth orbit to the moon, some 240,000 miles away. Orion is a capsule designed to carry astronauts on space journeys lasting up to a few weeks. What problems were encountered during the dress rehearsal? NASA first shot the SLS rocket to the launch site in mid-March. In early April, it attempted a “wet dress rehearsal” of countdown procedures, including loading more than 700,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen rocket propellants. However, technical glitches, including a hydrogen leak during three rehearsal attempts, curtailed the countdown. NASA then dropped the rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building to perform repairs. In June, the rocket returned to the launch site for another attempt at the wet dress rehearsal. That attempt, on June 20, encountered a different hydrogen leak, at a fuel line connector in the booster stage of the rocket. However, the propellant tanks were fully filled for the first time and the controllers were able to continue the rehearsal until the countdown ended with 29 seconds remaining. Initially, the goal was to stop the countdown in less than 10 seconds, when the engines would start for an actual launch. Despite the leak, NASA officials determined that all critical systems had been adequately tested and declared the test a success. The missile headed back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for final preparations, including the installation of the flight termination system, which would detonate the missile if something went wrong during launch and eliminate the possibility of hitting a residential area. The flight termination system’s batteries, installed Aug. 11, are normally rated to last only 20 days, but the United States Space Force division that oversees the launches from Florida granted NASA a waiver extending the period to 25 days . This allows for a release date of August 29th as well as backup opportunities on September 2nd and 5th. NASA hopes to fix the hydrogen leak, but won’t know for sure until the Aug. 29 countdown, when the propellant line will cool to extremely low temperatures, something that can’t be tested in the Vehicle Assembly Building. This article was originally published in the New York Times.

title: “Nasa S Moon Rocket Returns To Launch Site Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-15” author: “Carrie Porter”

NASA’s Big Moon rocket is blasting off to the launch pad for the third time – and it’s actually going to blast off to the moon. For once, NASA is ahead of schedule. For the past month and a half, the Space Launch System rocket, which is the most powerful since the Saturn V that carried astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, has been parked in a building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There, technicians are preparing the rocket for its maiden flight, which could take place in two weeks. The move from the building to the launch site was scheduled for Thursday, but NASA announced Monday that the move had been rescheduled for Tuesday afternoon. All of this is leading up to the launch of NASA’s Artemis I mission, an uncrewed test of the giant Orion rocket and spacecraft that will one day house astronauts. What happens during the release and can I watch it? It’s about 4.2 miles from NASA’s massive Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch site, known as Launch Complex 39B. NASA first used the pad during the Apollo program in the 1960s. The rocket and launch tower will be mounted on a giant vehicle that NASA calls a crawler-transporter. It is the same vehicle that carried the Saturn V to the moon landings, but it has been refurbished and upgraded. The crawler does indeed crawl. Larger in area than an infield baseball field and capable of carrying up to 18 million pounds, it will travel at speeds of up to 1 mph over a gravel track to the launch site. The trip will take about 10 hours. NASA began broadcasting the traffic at 3 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday on one of her YouTube channels when the doors to the vehicle assembly building opened. The crawler and rocket could actually start moving around 9 p.m. What happens next? Technicians will make final preparations, including connecting power and propellant lines to the rocket and launch tower. Although the launch is earlier, the target time for the Artemis I launch has not changed: Monday, August 29 at 8:33 AM. EST time. What is the Space Launch System and Orion and why are they important? The Space Launch System and Orion are two of the key elements of NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon in the coming years. Getting there requires a rocket powerful enough to propel a large spacecraft from low Earth orbit to the moon, some 240,000 miles away. Orion is a capsule designed to carry astronauts on space journeys lasting up to a few weeks. What problems were encountered during the dress rehearsal? NASA first shot the SLS rocket to the launch site in mid-March. In early April, it attempted a “wet dress rehearsal” of countdown procedures, including loading more than 700,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen rocket propellants. However, technical glitches, including a hydrogen leak during three rehearsal attempts, curtailed the countdown. NASA then dropped the rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building to perform repairs. In June, the rocket returned to the launch site for another attempt at the wet dress rehearsal. That attempt, on June 20, encountered a different hydrogen leak, at a fuel line connector in the booster stage of the rocket. However, the propellant tanks were fully filled for the first time and the controllers were able to continue the rehearsal until the countdown ended with 29 seconds remaining. Initially, the goal was to stop the countdown in less than 10 seconds, when the engines would start for an actual launch. Despite the leak, NASA officials determined that all critical systems had been adequately tested and declared the test a success. The missile headed back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for final preparations, including the installation of the flight termination system, which would detonate the missile if something went wrong during launch and eliminate the possibility of hitting a residential area. The flight termination system’s batteries, installed Aug. 11, are normally rated to last only 20 days, but the United States Space Force division that oversees the launches from Florida granted NASA a waiver extending the period to 25 days . This allows for a release date of August 29th as well as backup opportunities on September 2nd and 5th. NASA hopes to fix the hydrogen leak, but won’t know for sure until the Aug. 29 countdown, when the propellant line will cool to extremely low temperatures, something that can’t be tested in the Vehicle Assembly Building. This article was originally published in the New York Times.

title: “Nasa S Moon Rocket Returns To Launch Site Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-02” author: “Virgina Lugo”

NASA’s Big Moon rocket is blasting off to the launch pad for the third time – and it’s actually going to blast off to the moon. For once, NASA is ahead of schedule. For the past month and a half, the Space Launch System rocket, which is the most powerful since the Saturn V that carried astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, has been parked in a building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There, technicians are preparing the rocket for its maiden flight, which could take place in two weeks. The move from the building to the launch site was scheduled for Thursday, but NASA announced Monday that the move had been rescheduled for Tuesday afternoon. All of this is leading up to the launch of NASA’s Artemis I mission, an uncrewed test of the giant Orion rocket and spacecraft that will one day house astronauts. What happens during the release and can I watch it? It’s about 4.2 miles from NASA’s massive Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch site, known as Launch Complex 39B. NASA first used the pad during the Apollo program in the 1960s. The rocket and launch tower will be mounted on a giant vehicle that NASA calls a crawler-transporter. It is the same vehicle that carried the Saturn V to the moon landings, but it has been refurbished and upgraded. The crawler does indeed crawl. Larger in area than an infield baseball field and capable of carrying up to 18 million pounds, it will travel at speeds of up to 1 mph over a gravel track to the launch site. The trip will take about 10 hours. NASA began broadcasting the traffic at 3 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday on one of her YouTube channels when the doors to the vehicle assembly building opened. The crawler and rocket could actually start moving around 9 p.m. What happens next? Technicians will make final preparations, including connecting power and propellant lines to the rocket and launch tower. Although the launch is earlier, the target time for the Artemis I launch has not changed: Monday, August 29 at 8:33 AM. EST time. What is the Space Launch System and Orion and why are they important? The Space Launch System and Orion are two of the key elements of NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon in the coming years. Getting there requires a rocket powerful enough to propel a large spacecraft from low Earth orbit to the moon, some 240,000 miles away. Orion is a capsule designed to carry astronauts on space journeys lasting up to a few weeks. What problems were encountered during the dress rehearsal? NASA first shot the SLS rocket to the launch site in mid-March. In early April, it attempted a “wet dress rehearsal” of countdown procedures, including loading more than 700,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen rocket propellants. However, technical glitches, including a hydrogen leak during three rehearsal attempts, curtailed the countdown. NASA then dropped the rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building to perform repairs. In June, the rocket returned to the launch site for another attempt at the wet dress rehearsal. That attempt, on June 20, encountered a different hydrogen leak, at a fuel line connector in the booster stage of the rocket. However, the propellant tanks were fully filled for the first time and the controllers were able to continue the rehearsal until the countdown ended with 29 seconds remaining. Initially, the goal was to stop the countdown in less than 10 seconds, when the engines would start for an actual launch. Despite the leak, NASA officials determined that all critical systems had been adequately tested and declared the test a success. The missile headed back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for final preparations, including the installation of the flight termination system, which would detonate the missile if something went wrong during launch and eliminate the possibility of hitting a residential area. The flight termination system’s batteries, installed Aug. 11, are normally rated to last only 20 days, but the United States Space Force division that oversees the launches from Florida granted NASA a waiver extending the period to 25 days . This allows for a release date of August 29th as well as backup opportunities on September 2nd and 5th. NASA hopes to fix the hydrogen leak, but won’t know for sure until the Aug. 29 countdown, when the propellant line will cool to extremely low temperatures, something that can’t be tested in the Vehicle Assembly Building. This article was originally published in the New York Times.

title: “Nasa S Moon Rocket Returns To Launch Site Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-04” author: “Eloise Hall”

NASA’s Big Moon rocket is blasting off to the launch pad for the third time – and it’s actually going to blast off to the moon. For once, NASA is ahead of schedule. For the past month and a half, the Space Launch System rocket, which is the most powerful since the Saturn V that carried astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, has been parked in a building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There, technicians are preparing the rocket for its maiden flight, which could take place in two weeks. The move from the building to the launch site was scheduled for Thursday, but NASA announced Monday that the move had been rescheduled for Tuesday afternoon. All of this is leading up to the launch of NASA’s Artemis I mission, an uncrewed test of the giant Orion rocket and spacecraft that will one day house astronauts. What happens during the release and can I watch it? It’s about 4.2 miles from NASA’s massive Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch site, known as Launch Complex 39B. NASA first used the pad during the Apollo program in the 1960s. The rocket and launch tower will be mounted on a giant vehicle that NASA calls a crawler-transporter. It is the same vehicle that carried the Saturn V to the moon landings, but it has been refurbished and upgraded. The crawler does indeed crawl. Larger in area than an infield baseball field and capable of carrying up to 18 million pounds, it will travel at speeds of up to 1 mph over a gravel track to the launch site. The trip will take about 10 hours. NASA began broadcasting the traffic at 3 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday on one of her YouTube channels when the doors to the vehicle assembly building opened. The crawler and rocket could actually start moving around 9 p.m. What happens next? Technicians will make final preparations, including connecting power and propellant lines to the rocket and launch tower. Although the launch is earlier, the target time for the Artemis I launch has not changed: Monday, August 29 at 8:33 AM. EST time. What is the Space Launch System and Orion and why are they important? The Space Launch System and Orion are two of the key elements of NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon in the coming years. Getting there requires a rocket powerful enough to propel a large spacecraft from low Earth orbit to the moon, some 240,000 miles away. Orion is a capsule designed to carry astronauts on space journeys lasting up to a few weeks. What problems were encountered during the dress rehearsal? NASA first shot the SLS rocket to the launch site in mid-March. In early April, it attempted a “wet dress rehearsal” of countdown procedures, including loading more than 700,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen rocket propellants. However, technical glitches, including a hydrogen leak during three rehearsal attempts, curtailed the countdown. NASA then dropped the rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building to perform repairs. In June, the rocket returned to the launch site for another attempt at the wet dress rehearsal. That attempt, on June 20, encountered a different hydrogen leak, at a fuel line connector in the booster stage of the rocket. However, the propellant tanks were fully filled for the first time and the controllers were able to continue the rehearsal until the countdown ended with 29 seconds remaining. Initially, the goal was to stop the countdown in less than 10 seconds, when the engines would start for an actual launch. Despite the leak, NASA officials determined that all critical systems had been adequately tested and declared the test a success. The missile headed back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for final preparations, including the installation of the flight termination system, which would detonate the missile if something went wrong during launch and eliminate the possibility of hitting a residential area. The flight termination system’s batteries, installed Aug. 11, are normally rated to last only 20 days, but the United States Space Force division that oversees the launches from Florida granted NASA a waiver extending the period to 25 days . This allows for a release date of August 29th as well as backup opportunities on September 2nd and 5th. NASA hopes to fix the hydrogen leak, but won’t know for sure until the Aug. 29 countdown, when the propellant line will cool to extremely low temperatures, something that can’t be tested in the Vehicle Assembly Building. This article was originally published in the New York Times.

title: “Nasa S Moon Rocket Returns To Launch Site Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-13” author: “Paul Waters”

NASA’s Big Moon rocket is blasting off to the launch pad for the third time – and it’s actually going to blast off to the moon. For once, NASA is ahead of schedule. For the past month and a half, the Space Launch System rocket, which is the most powerful since the Saturn V that carried astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, has been parked in a building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There, technicians are preparing the rocket for its maiden flight, which could take place in two weeks. The move from the building to the launch site was scheduled for Thursday, but NASA announced Monday that the move had been rescheduled for Tuesday afternoon. All of this is leading up to the launch of NASA’s Artemis I mission, an uncrewed test of the giant Orion rocket and spacecraft that will one day house astronauts. What happens during the release and can I watch it? It’s about 4.2 miles from NASA’s massive Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch site, known as Launch Complex 39B. NASA first used the pad during the Apollo program in the 1960s. The rocket and launch tower will be mounted on a giant vehicle that NASA calls a crawler-transporter. It is the same vehicle that carried the Saturn V to the moon landings, but it has been refurbished and upgraded. The crawler does indeed crawl. Larger in area than an infield baseball field and capable of carrying up to 18 million pounds, it will travel at speeds of up to 1 mph over a gravel track to the launch site. The trip will take about 10 hours. NASA began broadcasting the traffic at 3 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday on one of her YouTube channels when the doors to the vehicle assembly building opened. The crawler and rocket could actually start moving around 9 p.m. What happens next? Technicians will make final preparations, including connecting power and propellant lines to the rocket and launch tower. Although the launch is earlier, the target time for the Artemis I launch has not changed: Monday, August 29 at 8:33 AM. EST time. What is the Space Launch System and Orion and why are they important? The Space Launch System and Orion are two of the key elements of NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon in the coming years. Getting there requires a rocket powerful enough to propel a large spacecraft from low Earth orbit to the moon, some 240,000 miles away. Orion is a capsule designed to carry astronauts on space journeys lasting up to a few weeks. What problems were encountered during the dress rehearsal? NASA first shot the SLS rocket to the launch site in mid-March. In early April, it attempted a “wet dress rehearsal” of countdown procedures, including loading more than 700,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen rocket propellants. However, technical glitches, including a hydrogen leak during three rehearsal attempts, curtailed the countdown. NASA then dropped the rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building to perform repairs. In June, the rocket returned to the launch site for another attempt at the wet dress rehearsal. That attempt, on June 20, encountered a different hydrogen leak, at a fuel line connector in the booster stage of the rocket. However, the propellant tanks were fully filled for the first time and the controllers were able to continue the rehearsal until the countdown ended with 29 seconds remaining. Initially, the goal was to stop the countdown in less than 10 seconds, when the engines would start for an actual launch. Despite the leak, NASA officials determined that all critical systems had been adequately tested and declared the test a success. The missile headed back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for final preparations, including the installation of the flight termination system, which would detonate the missile if something went wrong during launch and eliminate the possibility of hitting a residential area. The flight termination system’s batteries, installed Aug. 11, are normally rated to last only 20 days, but the United States Space Force division that oversees the launches from Florida granted NASA a waiver extending the period to 25 days . This allows for a release date of August 29th as well as backup opportunities on September 2nd and 5th. NASA hopes to fix the hydrogen leak, but won’t know for sure until the Aug. 29 countdown, when the propellant line will cool to extremely low temperatures, something that can’t be tested in the Vehicle Assembly Building. This article was originally published in the New York Times.