Another Good Day For Canada Despite Artemis Moon Launch Delay Minister

Champagne, who was in Florida for a two-day trip that included meetings with Canadian astronauts and NASA officials, got up at 1:30 a.m. to head to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral only to find the mission delayed. “Obviously we all wanted to be there to witness history,” he told Canadian reporters on a conference call from Orlando. But representing Canada in the broader mission is more important, Champagne said. “If you look at the big picture, what really matters to Canadians and certainly young Canadians is that this time we’re not watching it, we’re part of it.” It’s been more than half a century since humans last visited the moon, and waiting days or weeks for this Artemis test launch to go ahead won’t make that much of a difference in the long run, he said. When the mission resumes, Canada will be “front and center.” Canada is contributing a new robotic arm, Canadarm 3, to the Gateway space station that NASA plans to eventually put into orbit around the Moon. A Canadian astronaut is also expected to be on the first manned rocket crew, Artemis 2, which is expected to fly around the moon and return in 2024. The first flight of the 98-meter-long rocket was scheduled to take place on Monday morning with three test dummies on board, but a series of last-minute problems culminated in an unexplained engine problem. As the precious minutes ticked away Monday morning, NASA repeatedly stopped and restarted fueling the Space Launch System rocket due to a leak of highly explosive hydrogen, eventually managing to reduce the leak to acceptable levels. The leak occurred in the same spot where there was a leak during a dress rehearsal in the spring. Fueling had already been delayed nearly an hour due to storms off Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Then NASA ran into a new problem when it was unable to properly cool one of the rocket’s four main engines, officials said. Engineers continued to work to identify the source of the problem after the launch postponement was announced. “This is a very complex machine, a very complex system, and it all has to work, and you don’t want to light the candle until it’s ready,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. Referring to the launch delays, he said: “It’s just part of the space business and it’s part, especially, of a test flight.” Canadian astronaut David St-Jacques was watching. “The little boy in me is disappointed. I wanted to see the excitement of a rocket launch, this great new rocket, the beginning of a new era of exploration,” he said. “But the sober engineer in me says, ‘ugh, I’m glad someone found this problem and saved us from a bigger problem.’ St-Jacques said the Artemis program will return humans to the lunar environment, but will ultimately prepare us for missions to Mars. It will create a higher level of confidence for more space exploration. Canada’s involvement is “huge for our nation,” he said. He noted that past space exploration has produced widely used technologies such as GPS, and Canada’s current space exploration research, which focuses on health and food, will have other applications – for example, with remote medicine or in growing food in harsh Canadian environments. The next launch attempt won’t take place until Friday at the earliest and could be delayed until mid-September or later. Champagne’s office said it was unlikely he would be able to attend the next launch window. This report by The Canadian Press was first published on August 29, 2022. — With files from The Associated Press and a file from Pierre Saint-Arnaud.

title: " Another Good Day For Canada Despite Artemis Moon Launch Delay Minister Klmat" ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-08” author: “Kevin Kellogg”

Champagne, who was in Florida for a two-day trip that included meetings with Canadian astronauts and NASA officials, got up at 1:30 a.m. to head to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral only to find the mission delayed. “Obviously we all wanted to be there to witness history,” he told Canadian reporters on a conference call from Orlando. But representing Canada in the broader mission is more important, Champagne said. “If you look at the big picture, what really matters to Canadians and certainly young Canadians is that this time we’re not watching it, we’re part of it.” It’s been more than half a century since humans last visited the moon, and waiting days or weeks for this Artemis test launch to go ahead won’t make that much of a difference in the long run, he said. When the mission resumes, Canada will be “front and center.” Canada is contributing a new robotic arm, Canadarm 3, to the Gateway space station that NASA plans to eventually put into orbit around the Moon. A Canadian astronaut is also expected to be on the first manned rocket crew, Artemis 2, which is expected to fly around the moon and return in 2024. The first flight of the 98-meter-long rocket was scheduled to take place on Monday morning with three test dummies on board, but a series of last-minute problems culminated in an unexplained engine problem. As the precious minutes ticked away Monday morning, NASA repeatedly stopped and restarted fueling the Space Launch System rocket due to a leak of highly explosive hydrogen, eventually managing to reduce the leak to acceptable levels. The leak occurred in the same spot where there was a leak during a dress rehearsal in the spring. Fueling had already been delayed nearly an hour due to storms off Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Then NASA ran into a new problem when it was unable to properly cool one of the rocket’s four main engines, officials said. Engineers continued to work to identify the source of the problem after the launch postponement was announced. “This is a very complex machine, a very complex system, and it all has to work, and you don’t want to light the candle until it’s ready,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. Referring to the launch delays, he said: “It’s just part of the space business and it’s part, especially, of a test flight.” Canadian astronaut David St-Jacques was watching. “The little boy in me is disappointed. I wanted to see the excitement of a rocket launch, this great new rocket, the beginning of a new era of exploration,” he said. “But the sober engineer in me says, ‘ugh, I’m glad someone found this problem and saved us from a bigger problem.’ St-Jacques said the Artemis program will return humans to the lunar environment, but will ultimately prepare us for missions to Mars. It will create a higher level of confidence for more space exploration. Canada’s involvement is “huge for our nation,” he said. He noted that past space exploration has produced widely used technologies such as GPS, and Canada’s current space exploration research, which focuses on health and food, will have other applications – for example, with remote medicine or in growing food in harsh Canadian environments. The next launch attempt won’t take place until Friday at the earliest and could be delayed until mid-September or later. Champagne’s office said it was unlikely he would be able to attend the next launch window. This report by The Canadian Press was first published on August 29, 2022. — With files from The Associated Press and a file from Pierre Saint-Arnaud.

title: " Another Good Day For Canada Despite Artemis Moon Launch Delay Minister Klmat" ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-10” author: “Jillian Jackson”

Champagne, who was in Florida for a two-day trip that included meetings with Canadian astronauts and NASA officials, got up at 1:30 a.m. to head to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral only to find the mission delayed. “Obviously we all wanted to be there to witness history,” he told Canadian reporters on a conference call from Orlando. But representing Canada in the broader mission is more important, Champagne said. “If you look at the big picture, what really matters to Canadians and certainly young Canadians is that this time we’re not watching it, we’re part of it.” It’s been more than half a century since humans last visited the moon, and waiting days or weeks for this Artemis test launch to go ahead won’t make that much of a difference in the long run, he said. When the mission resumes, Canada will be “front and center.” Canada is contributing a new robotic arm, Canadarm 3, to the Gateway space station that NASA plans to eventually put into orbit around the Moon. A Canadian astronaut is also expected to be on the first manned rocket crew, Artemis 2, which is expected to fly around the moon and return in 2024. The first flight of the 98-meter-long rocket was scheduled to take place on Monday morning with three test dummies on board, but a series of last-minute problems culminated in an unexplained engine problem. As the precious minutes ticked away Monday morning, NASA repeatedly stopped and restarted fueling the Space Launch System rocket due to a leak of highly explosive hydrogen, eventually managing to reduce the leak to acceptable levels. The leak occurred in the same spot where there was a leak during a dress rehearsal in the spring. Fueling had already been delayed nearly an hour due to storms off Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Then NASA ran into a new problem when it was unable to properly cool one of the rocket’s four main engines, officials said. Engineers continued to work to identify the source of the problem after the launch postponement was announced. “This is a very complex machine, a very complex system, and it all has to work, and you don’t want to light the candle until it’s ready,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. Referring to the launch delays, he said: “It’s just part of the space business and it’s part, especially, of a test flight.” Canadian astronaut David St-Jacques was watching. “The little boy in me is disappointed. I wanted to see the excitement of a rocket launch, this great new rocket, the beginning of a new era of exploration,” he said. “But the sober engineer in me says, ‘ugh, I’m glad someone found this problem and saved us from a bigger problem.’ St-Jacques said the Artemis program will return humans to the lunar environment, but will ultimately prepare us for missions to Mars. It will create a higher level of confidence for more space exploration. Canada’s involvement is “huge for our nation,” he said. He noted that past space exploration has produced widely used technologies such as GPS, and Canada’s current space exploration research, which focuses on health and food, will have other applications – for example, with remote medicine or in growing food in harsh Canadian environments. The next launch attempt won’t take place until Friday at the earliest and could be delayed until mid-September or later. Champagne’s office said it was unlikely he would be able to attend the next launch window. This report by The Canadian Press was first published on August 29, 2022. — With files from The Associated Press and a file from Pierre Saint-Arnaud.

title: " Another Good Day For Canada Despite Artemis Moon Launch Delay Minister Klmat" ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-21” author: “Dawn Atkins”

Champagne, who was in Florida for a two-day trip that included meetings with Canadian astronauts and NASA officials, got up at 1:30 a.m. to head to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral only to find the mission delayed. “Obviously we all wanted to be there to witness history,” he told Canadian reporters on a conference call from Orlando. But representing Canada in the broader mission is more important, Champagne said. “If you look at the big picture, what really matters to Canadians and certainly young Canadians is that this time we’re not watching it, we’re part of it.” It’s been more than half a century since humans last visited the moon, and waiting days or weeks for this Artemis test launch to go ahead won’t make that much of a difference in the long run, he said. When the mission resumes, Canada will be “front and center.” Canada is contributing a new robotic arm, Canadarm 3, to the Gateway space station that NASA plans to eventually put into orbit around the Moon. A Canadian astronaut is also expected to be on the first manned rocket crew, Artemis 2, which is expected to fly around the moon and return in 2024. The first flight of the 98-meter-long rocket was scheduled to take place on Monday morning with three test dummies on board, but a series of last-minute problems culminated in an unexplained engine problem. As the precious minutes ticked away Monday morning, NASA repeatedly stopped and restarted fueling the Space Launch System rocket due to a leak of highly explosive hydrogen, eventually managing to reduce the leak to acceptable levels. The leak occurred in the same spot where there was a leak during a dress rehearsal in the spring. Fueling had already been delayed nearly an hour due to storms off Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Then NASA ran into a new problem when it was unable to properly cool one of the rocket’s four main engines, officials said. Engineers continued to work to identify the source of the problem after the launch postponement was announced. “This is a very complex machine, a very complex system, and it all has to work, and you don’t want to light the candle until it’s ready,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. Referring to the launch delays, he said: “It’s just part of the space business and it’s part, especially, of a test flight.” Canadian astronaut David St-Jacques was watching. “The little boy in me is disappointed. I wanted to see the excitement of a rocket launch, this great new rocket, the beginning of a new era of exploration,” he said. “But the sober engineer in me says, ‘ugh, I’m glad someone found this problem and saved us from a bigger problem.’ St-Jacques said the Artemis program will return humans to the lunar environment, but will ultimately prepare us for missions to Mars. It will create a higher level of confidence for more space exploration. Canada’s involvement is “huge for our nation,” he said. He noted that past space exploration has produced widely used technologies such as GPS, and Canada’s current space exploration research, which focuses on health and food, will have other applications – for example, with remote medicine or in growing food in harsh Canadian environments. The next launch attempt won’t take place until Friday at the earliest and could be delayed until mid-September or later. Champagne’s office said it was unlikely he would be able to attend the next launch window. This report by The Canadian Press was first published on August 29, 2022. — With files from The Associated Press and a file from Pierre Saint-Arnaud.