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Community => Recreation Commons => Destination: Alpha Centauri => Topic started by: Unorthodox on August 29, 2022, 03:48:32 PM

Title: Artemis launch Scrubbed
Post by: Unorthodox on August 29, 2022, 03:48:32 PM

https://www.wesh.com/article/watch-live-artemis-launch/41016789#

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The NASA Artemis 1 launch was scrubbed Monday.

Fuel leaks have forced NASA to scrub the launch of its new moon rocket on a no-crew test flight.

The next launch attempt will not take place until Friday at the earliest. The launch window on Friday opens at 12:48 p.m. and remains open until 2:48 p.m.

The launch was expected to come early Monday morning and liftoff from Launch Pad 39-B.

According to NASA, the engineering team was troubleshooting a bleed flow for Engine 3 on the core stage and the countdown was held.

The launch window opened at 8:33 a.m. and was supposed to be open until 10:33 a.m. The launch was scrubbed a few minutes after the window opened due to the technical issue.

Hundreds of thousands of people are visiting Brevard County in hopes of catching a great view.

Anywhere from 100,000 to 500,000 people are expected to descend on the Space Coast to watch Monday's launch.

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Brevard County officials have been preparing for high amounts of traffic on launch day, even advising parents to plan ahead for dropping their kids off at school.

"Be patient. Watch for pedestrians because there's going to be a lot of people out crossing the streets,” said Don Walker with Brevard County Emergency Management Response.

"We've heard as many as 500,000 from the Cape. So you're talking about almost doubling the size of Brevard County in just, on a Monday morning,” Walker said.

The rocket will launch without astronauts, orbiting the moon before coming back to earth.

Rather than astronauts, a mannequin named Commander Moonikin Campos will helm the Orion spacecraft, with two mannequin torsos called Helga and Zohar along for the ride.

The Artemis program aims to land the first woman and the first person of color on the moon and eventually deliver astronauts to Mars.

The inaugural mission will test out the new Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and multiple components designed to make deep space travel safer for humans.

The mission will help make sure things go smoothly for the Orion spacecraft for Artemis 2, which is expected in 2024.

Weather conditions are looking favorable for the launch.