The US space agency will attempt once again in the coming hours to launch its most powerful ever rocket.
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| NASA’s “meatball” logo. Photo: NASA via space.com |
Nasa was thwarted by a mix of technical and weather woes when it tried to get the Artemis I Moon mission off Earth on Monday.
But the mood remains positive at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.
“We’ve got to show up, we’ve got to be ready and we’ve got to see what the day brings,” Mike Sarafin, Nasa’s Artemis mission manager, told reporters.
This week at NASA, we prepared for the Sept. 3 #Artemis I flight test, @NASAWebb imaged its first exoplanet, and the next Earth water-surveying satellite got a launch date. https://t.co/JSDausMuVv pic.twitter.com/fwxDJpwbZh
— NASA (@NASA) September 3, 2022
Saturday’s attempt to despatch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket has been scheduled for the start of a two-hour window that begins at 14:17 local time (19:17 BST; 18:17 GMT). BBC
