NASA and SpaceX teams found no big issues during Crew-4's flight readiness review.
"Right now, everything looks good, and we have a clear path forward to that April 23 launch opportunity," Jared Metter, director of flight reliability at SpaceX, said during a call with reporters this afternoon.The flight readiness review was"very, very clean," NASA human spaceflight chief Kathy Lueders said during today's call. The teams identified just a few minor items that should get resolved within the next 24 to 36 hours or so, she added.
The teams also want to make sure they've got redundancy in the system that provides gaseous nitrogen to launch vehicles at KSC, Stich added. That desire may have been colored by the experience of NASA's Artemis 1 team, which hadfrom a commercial vendor during the moon mission's crucial"wet dress rehearsal" at KSC's Pad 39B earlier this month.
The mission will launch during a very busy time for human spaceflight. As noted above, NASA has been conducting thewet dress rehearsal — a practice run of important prelaunch procedures, including rocket fueling — at KSC.
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