NASA's giant moon rocket set to fly soon 📝: jeffreykluger
ou could go your entire life without thinking about a collet. Indeed, you could go your entire life without even knowing what a collet is, and if we stopped right here you’d be no worse off. For the record, though, a collet is a small ring of metal, about the size of a fist, and,, at the moment, it’s the biggest thing standing in the way of the U.S. having humans back on the surface of the moon sometime in the middle of this decade.
But before Artemis 1 can fly, NASA had to go through a so-called wet dress rehearsal, during which the rocket would be rolled out to the launch pad, loaded with 2.8 million liters of liquid hydrogen and oxygen fuel and run through a simulated countdown. Four times NASA attempted the wet dress rehearsal and three of those times it failed for one technical glitch or another.
If they can, the moon mission is on—marking the first time the U.S. will have sent a crew-rated spacecraft on a lunar journey since Apollo 17 in December 1972. The exact timing of the mission depends on the relative positions of the Earth and the moon, and means that there are three dates on which Artemis 1 could launch in the immediate future: Aug. 29, Sept. 2, and Sept. 9. If the space agency misses those launch windows, the mission would slip to late September or early October.
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