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You love me: The curse is still chasing the first mission of the “Artemis” space program, as the launch of the huge new NASA “SLS” rocket to the moon was again postponed due to storm Nicole, which is expected to attend Florida in the middle of the week, and it was set for Wednesday 16 October. This November will be the next date, NASA announced Tuesday.
The take-off was scheduled for November 14, but NASA made it clear in a statement that it wants to allow its employees to meet the “needs of their families” in the face of this storm, which is in danger of turning into a hurricane. The agency added that returning the missile to its launch position after the storm ended would also require “sufficient logistical time”.
On November 16, the launch window will open at 01:04 local time (06:04 GMT), if “conditions are safe for employees to return to work” and “after conducting the necessary audits after the storm has passed “.
If necessary, the missile could be launched on another date set by the agency as a precaution, namely November 19. NASA also said Tuesday that it is working to identify “further launch opportunities”.
two launch attempts
NASA made two launches of this missile, in late August and early September, but had to cancel them at the last minute due to technical problems.
But the SLS, the most powerful rocket ever built by the US space agency, had to be returned to the assembly building at the Kennedy Space Center to protect itself from Hurricane Ian. The SLS was brought back on the launch pad in Florida just before Ian.
The unmanned mission Artemis 1 will be the first of a major US program to return to the moon.
NASA’s new flagship program “Artemis” will allow humans to return to the moon and transport the first woman and first black people there.
Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, Artemis 1 will not carry any astronauts on board. The mission is to verify that the Orion capsule on top of the rocket is safe for future crew transportation.
