'If we weren't confident, we wouldn't roll out.'
Despite these setbacks, NASA officials stressed in today's media briefing that they stand behind the new mission timeline, which aims for a launch attempt at 12:07 a.m. EST on Nov. 14."If we weren't confident, we wouldn't roll out. If we weren't confident, we wouldn't start the countdown when we do so.
NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission stack rolls toward the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the early morning hours of April 26, 2022. Lanham added that, with preflight work now nearing completion, NASA's teams at KSC have begun preparing for Friday's rollout to Launch Pad 39."We started retracting our platforms. We're actually retracting our final platform now. And the crawler transporter is now in the high bay underneath the mobile launcher."
Space.com asked NASA officials whether or not the previous scrubbed launch attempts and the widespread media scrutiny that followed has affected the morale of the many personnel working on the Artemis 1 mission.
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