Posted on 04/09/2022 5:10:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The wet dress rehearsal, which simulates every stage of launch without the rocket actually leaving the launchpad, will begin at 5 p.m. ET on Saturday and is expected to go until 2:40 p.m. ET Monday, according to the release.
The test is an important step in the first phase of NASA's Artemis program, which is expected to return humans to the moon and land the first woman and the first person of color on the lunar surface by 2025.
The results of the wet dress rehearsal will determine when Artemis I will launch on a mission that goes beyond the moon and returns to Earth.
During the flight, the uncrewed Orion spacecraft will launch atop the SLS rocket to reach the moon and travel thousands of miles beyond it -- farther than any spacecraft intended to carry humans has ever traveled. This mission is expected to last for a few weeks and will end with Orion splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.
Artemis II will be a crewed flyby of the moon, and Artemis III will return astronauts to the lunar surface. The time line for the subsequent mission launches depends on the results of the Artemis I mission.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Is the capsule still waiting to dock due to video issues...?
“land the first woman and the first person of color on the lunar surface by 2025.”
OK. Finally from CNN, we now know the science behind NASA’s sudden rush to return to the moon.
Political Science.
Looks like they may have found a work around.
May resuming docking in a few minutes...
Looking forward to the first paraplegic being landed on the moon.
“...land the first woman and the first person of color on the lunar surface by 2025.”
In other words, the woman and the first person of color has to be placed on the surface of the moon, or the Supreme Court, by whites? Where is the glory in that.
I am so fed up with the racism.
This fixation on race and gender above the mission is going to be the death of this country.
After that the first hearing and height challenged, blind, trans, paraplegic ...
Gotta stall off and, if possible, bankrupt SpaceX so that NASA can justify its budget and Blue Origin can make The Amazing Bozo lots of money.
Good luck getting through the Van Allen belt without getting fried. 🙄
“land the first woman and the first person of color on the lunar surface by 2025.”
Would you believe 2026?
2027?
2030?
2040?
Place your bets!
Everyone knows .gov lies and lies and lies...but most folks still are holding on to that one last lie....
https://www.aulis.com/investigation.htm
So, double discrimination in selecting the crew.
So you're a 'they faked all the moon landings' person? Why am I not surprised?
Yeh, you’re right. Who would doubt strapping two bottle rockets to a Budweiser can would make it to the Moon and back. Forget the radiation in the Van Allen belt. 😆
Not surprising at all.
Late, massively over budget - I give it lass then a 1 in 10 chance of making orbit.
Read and learn:
https://www.aulis.com/traj_craft.htm
https://www.aulis.com/orion_vanallens.htm
https://www.aulis.com/aulis_apollo.htm
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