NASA rolled the SLS rocket back into the mammoth Vehicle Assembly Building for protection at Kennedy Space Center ahead of potential impact from Hurricane Ian.
With Hurricane Ian bearing down on Florida this week, NASA rolled the Space Launch System rocket — set to launch the Artemis I mission — back into the mammoth Vehicle Assembly Building for protection at Kennedy Space Center.NASA associate administrator Jim Free said the agency expects to conduct work on the rocket while it's in the VAB, replacing components that are "limited life items.
The towering rocket, with the Orion capsule stacked on top of it, has been out on the launchpad since mid-August, before multiple technical problems forced NASA had to call off launch attempts over the past month. "It's just a challenge to think: 'Can we get in there, [complete the work], and get back out there for another launch attempt,'" Free said. "We don't want to go out too fast and then we're stuck in a situation where maybe we didn't get to all the limited life items we want to."
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