“They’re taking an opportunity while that vehicle is still fueled up to work this problem and they’re going to work it, they’ll get to the bottom of it, they’ll get it fixed and then we’ll fly,” he said. Nelson was optimistic about NASA teams’ efforts to fix the problem. We are stressing and testing this rocket and the spacecraft in a way that you would never do it with the human crew on board. and it’s part of particularly a test flight. “We know had we launched on any one of those scrubs it wouldn’t have been a good day. “I have some personal experience and the crew that I participated in on the 24th flight of the space shuttle, we scrubbed four times on the pad, and the fifth drive was a flawless mission,” he said. And all those things have to work and you don’t want to light the candle until it’s ready to go.” And I think it’s just illustrative that this is a very complicated machine, a very complicated system. “You can’t go - there are certain guidelines. And in fact, they’ve got a problem with the gasses going on the engine bleed on one engine,” he said. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson gave some perspective to the scrub in an interview Monday morning. “We’ll be back here on Friday if it’s going to go and if we can get more merchandise.”ĩ:20 a.m.: ‘We don’t launch until it’s right.’ “The hardest part of space is the launch, just getting the fuel and everything off the ground,” she said. I had to be here for this.”Īfter the news of today’s scrubbed launch, Varkett said she was disappointed but not surprised. “I remember Apollo 11 and I was here for the very first shuttle launch. and we were slammed,” said Varkett, whose company is called Cosmic Yia Yia Creations, using the Greek word for grandmother in the name. “We started setting up yesterday at 4 p.m. Torie Varkett, who lives in Crystal River and runs a business selling space gear with her family, was set up with a trailer to cater to the crowd’s appetite for merchandise. Max Brewer Bridge in Titusville on Monday, Aug. The sun rises with Artemis I in the background shot from Parrish Park on the A. Each window has only certain days during which the Earth and moon are in the right position for the mission. If NASA can’t manage liftoff during these first targets, it has windows that run from Sept. 5, during a 90-minute window that opens at 5:12 p.m. After that comes an opportunity on Labor Day, Sept. The next launch opportunity is Friday with a two-hour window that opens at 12:48 p.m., but it’s uncertain if NASA can fix the engine issue in time for that. The planned two-hour launch window opened at 8:33 a.m., but NASA scrubbed the day’s attempt just one minute into that window after engineers could not work through an issue in which the cryogenic liquid hydrogen from the core stage was not properly flowing into the four RS-25 engines at the base. NASA scrubbed its first attempt to launch the Artemis I moon mission from Kennedy Space Center on Monday after an engine issue that was a concern heading into the attempt ultimately proved the gremlin for the day.
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