NASA Launch Pad Sustained Significant Damage During Artemis Takeoff

Still some bugs to iron out.

In spite of those sanguine claims, however, reporters revealed that NASA seemed— and now, with these preliminary reports about how messed up it seems to have gotten, we may know why.

We don't yet know how extensive the launch tower damage is, though we have reached out to NASA for comment about it. Luckily, it wasn't bad enough to preclude the Orion capsule from being successfully launched into space and to begin

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