Nasa Is Preparing For Saturday S Moon Launch Attempt

        Kennedy Central Village (Etats-Unis) (AFP) – The stars appear to be aligned for NASA’s Moon rocket to finally blast off on Saturday, with favorable weather forecasts and technical issues that delayed the launch earlier this week resolved.        

Takeoff is scheduled for 2:17 p.m. local time (1817 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the possibility of a delay of up to two hours if necessary. The chance of favorable weather within that window was 60 percent Thursday night. “The weather looks good” and is not expected to be a “showstopper,” forecaster Melody Lovin told a news conference. NASA is also working to fix the technical difficulties leading to the last-minute launch delay during the originally scheduled Monday window. At first, it appeared that one of the rocket’s four main engines was too hot, though that turned out to be just a reading from a “bad sensor,” rocket program manager John Honeycutt said Thursday. In the future, incorrect information will simply be ignored. Then a fuel tank leak had to be fixed. “We were able to find what we believe is the source of the leak and fix it,” said launch manager Charlie Blackwell-Thompson. The Artemis 1 mission is an uncrewed test flight. It will be the first launch for the Space Launch System (SLS), the world’s most powerful rocket, which has been in development for more than a decade. “There’s no guarantee we’ll land on Saturday, but we’ll try,” Artemis mission director Mike Sarafin said. If the mission takes place on Saturday, the Orion capsule attached to the top of the rocket will spend 37 days in space, orbiting the Moon from about 60 miles (100 kilometers) away. It is Orion that will carry future astronauts back to the Moon — including the first woman and the first person of color to walk on its surface — by 2025 at the earliest. Artemis was named after the twin sister of the Greek god Apollo, for whom the first missions to the Moon were named. With the new flagship program, NASA hopes to one day test the technology intended to send humans to Mars. © 2022 AFP

title: “Nasa Is Preparing For Saturday S Moon Launch Attempt Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-28” author: “Frank Pierce”

        Kennedy Central Village (Etats-Unis) (AFP) – The stars appear to be aligned for NASA’s Moon rocket to finally blast off on Saturday, with favorable weather forecasts and technical issues that delayed the launch earlier this week resolved.        

Takeoff is scheduled for 2:17 p.m. local time (1817 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the possibility of a delay of up to two hours if necessary. The chance of favorable weather within that window was 60 percent Thursday night. “The weather looks good” and is not expected to be a “showstopper,” forecaster Melody Lovin told a news conference. NASA is also working to fix the technical difficulties leading to the last-minute launch delay during the originally scheduled Monday window. At first, it appeared that one of the rocket’s four main engines was too hot, though that turned out to be just a reading from a “bad sensor,” rocket program manager John Honeycutt said Thursday. In the future, incorrect information will simply be ignored. Then a fuel tank leak had to be fixed. “We were able to find what we believe is the source of the leak and fix it,” said launch manager Charlie Blackwell-Thompson. The Artemis 1 mission is an uncrewed test flight. It will be the first launch for the Space Launch System (SLS), the world’s most powerful rocket, which has been in development for more than a decade. “There’s no guarantee we’ll land on Saturday, but we’ll try,” Artemis mission director Mike Sarafin said. If the mission takes place on Saturday, the Orion capsule attached to the top of the rocket will spend 37 days in space, orbiting the Moon from about 60 miles (100 kilometers) away. It is Orion that will carry future astronauts back to the Moon — including the first woman and the first person of color to walk on its surface — by 2025 at the earliest. Artemis was named after the twin sister of the Greek god Apollo, for whom the first missions to the Moon were named. With the new flagship program, NASA hopes to one day test the technology intended to send humans to Mars. © 2022 AFP

title: “Nasa Is Preparing For Saturday S Moon Launch Attempt Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-16” author: “Maureen Moak”

        Kennedy Central Village (Etats-Unis) (AFP) – The stars appear to be aligned for NASA’s Moon rocket to finally blast off on Saturday, with favorable weather forecasts and technical issues that delayed the launch earlier this week resolved.        

Takeoff is scheduled for 2:17 p.m. local time (1817 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the possibility of a delay of up to two hours if necessary. The chance of favorable weather within that window was 60 percent Thursday night. “The weather looks good” and is not expected to be a “showstopper,” forecaster Melody Lovin told a news conference. NASA is also working to fix the technical difficulties leading to the last-minute launch delay during the originally scheduled Monday window. At first, it appeared that one of the rocket’s four main engines was too hot, though that turned out to be just a reading from a “bad sensor,” rocket program manager John Honeycutt said Thursday. In the future, incorrect information will simply be ignored. Then a fuel tank leak had to be fixed. “We were able to find what we believe is the source of the leak and fix it,” said launch manager Charlie Blackwell-Thompson. The Artemis 1 mission is an uncrewed test flight. It will be the first launch for the Space Launch System (SLS), the world’s most powerful rocket, which has been in development for more than a decade. “There’s no guarantee we’ll land on Saturday, but we’ll try,” Artemis mission director Mike Sarafin said. If the mission takes place on Saturday, the Orion capsule attached to the top of the rocket will spend 37 days in space, orbiting the Moon from about 60 miles (100 kilometers) away. It is Orion that will carry future astronauts back to the Moon — including the first woman and the first person of color to walk on its surface — by 2025 at the earliest. Artemis was named after the twin sister of the Greek god Apollo, for whom the first missions to the Moon were named. With the new flagship program, NASA hopes to one day test the technology intended to send humans to Mars. © 2022 AFP

title: “Nasa Is Preparing For Saturday S Moon Launch Attempt Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-14” author: “Wilfred Shaw”

        Kennedy Central Village (Etats-Unis) (AFP) – The stars appear to be aligned for NASA’s Moon rocket to finally blast off on Saturday, with favorable weather forecasts and technical issues that delayed the launch earlier this week resolved.        

Takeoff is scheduled for 2:17 p.m. local time (1817 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the possibility of a delay of up to two hours if necessary. The chance of favorable weather within that window was 60 percent Thursday night. “The weather looks good” and is not expected to be a “showstopper,” forecaster Melody Lovin told a news conference. NASA is also working to fix the technical difficulties leading to the last-minute launch delay during the originally scheduled Monday window. At first, it appeared that one of the rocket’s four main engines was too hot, though that turned out to be just a reading from a “bad sensor,” rocket program manager John Honeycutt said Thursday. In the future, incorrect information will simply be ignored. Then a fuel tank leak had to be fixed. “We were able to find what we believe is the source of the leak and fix it,” said launch manager Charlie Blackwell-Thompson. The Artemis 1 mission is an uncrewed test flight. It will be the first launch for the Space Launch System (SLS), the world’s most powerful rocket, which has been in development for more than a decade. “There’s no guarantee we’ll land on Saturday, but we’ll try,” Artemis mission director Mike Sarafin said. If the mission takes place on Saturday, the Orion capsule attached to the top of the rocket will spend 37 days in space, orbiting the Moon from about 60 miles (100 kilometers) away. It is Orion that will carry future astronauts back to the Moon — including the first woman and the first person of color to walk on its surface — by 2025 at the earliest. Artemis was named after the twin sister of the Greek god Apollo, for whom the first missions to the Moon were named. With the new flagship program, NASA hopes to one day test the technology intended to send humans to Mars. © 2022 AFP