Posted on 11/10/2022 8:31:35 AM PST by Red Badger
With a tropical system bearing down on the Sunshine State, NASA has decided to leave the $4.1 billion Artemis 1 rocket on the Cape Canaveral launch pad.
This decision has left some worried that the anticipated launch of this rocket may be delayed indefinitely if it receives damage, but NASA is confident that it will be fine.
Trending: GOP Governor Receives Unexpected Phone Call After Midterm Victory According to a Tuesday blog post, the space agency stated that they are “working with U.S. Space Force and the National Hurricane Center to monitor Subtropical Storm Nicole.”
“NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is currently in a HURCON (Hurricane Condition) IV status, which includes implementing checklists and preparations for the storm as the agency continues to prioritize its employees in the Kennedy area.”
The post goes on to say that the rocket will be evaluated whether Artemis I is capable of a launch on Monday, Nov. 14.
The Artemis I is NASA’s latest step in its efforts to eventually return to the moon after a nearly 50-year absence from the lunar surface.
According to the New York Post, Artemis I’s mission is to send an empty capsule to orbit around the moon, before sending a manned mission in 2025.
Unfortunately, the mission has been delayed twice since August, once by a fuel leak and the other by Hurricane Ian back in September.
The concern now is whether NASA made the right decision to keep the highly anticipated and expensive craft exposed to the oncoming Tropical Storm Nicole.
According to the technology site ArsTechnica, NASA engineer John Blevins said Artemis can handle wind gusts up to 85 mph, though sustained winds may be another issue entirely.
Related: Video: DeSantis Crowd Erupts Into Chant That Trump Will Hate During Victory Speech NASA weighed the risk of keeping the rocket where it is mostly because of the possible wear and tear of transporting the massive rocket.
Artemis I would have to be rolled back four miles to its hangar and NASA has a budget for such rollouts; not to mention it takes a couple of days to safely set up the rocket on the pad, according to ArsTechnica.
According to ABC News, Nicole was expected to hit Florida’s east coast Wednesday night as a Category 1 hurricane, with sustained winds up to 95 mph. As Nicole graduates to Category 1 status, NASA runs the risk of underestimating the storm’s strength, causing potential damage to this important piece of the agency’s plans.
Weather forecasters have been issuing warnings:
As reported by the Orlando Sentinel, the acting head of the National Hurricane Center, Michael Brennan, stated Wednesday that, “we’re expecting the storm to go on and become a hurricane later today or tonight and make landfall as a hurricane along the east-central Florida coast somewhere in the vicinity from Palm Beach up to the Treasure Coast late tonight or early Thursday.”
Parts of the cost are already experiencing power outages and large sections of the Florida east coast are under evacuation orders.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
Some movie a guy seen once showed a rocket blasting off thru the eye of a hurricane so I’m not worried.
Musk’s rockets don’t cost $4.1 billion. He also makes much less of a production in launching one.
Just saying.
They have light bulb takerer outers and light bulb screwer inners and then there are the ladder holders and the ladder carriers in and the ladder carriers out. Gooberment employees with full benefits and retirement. It is a bleeding miracle they can launch a rocket for $4.1 billion.
There you go. Getting me all excited again.
Being blown up by their own $4.1 billion boondoggle... what justice.
Getting lucky doesn’t mean you weren’t foolish.
Hindu numbering. We just learned of it through trade with Arabs.
Oh, and there is also the line of gooberment defense type contractors lined up at the hog trough that must be fed.
Nah, it would be thrown off course by the gravity effect of Stacey Abrams when flying over Georgia. . . (evil grin)
This gives NASA a get out of jail free card if Artemis has a RUD. Climate change (hurricane) cause it to fail. (Barf)
...'taint no fuel in the puppy...
You are pretty far off the mark. They want to have a very high probability of success.
A true and loyal American would have high hopes and aspirations for that project.
I am true and loyal to the USA not this poor pretender to former greatness. It is the people that make a nation great and ours are failing fast. Great people elect great REPRESENTATIVES, ours dont in many, many places.
Peddle your sanctimony somewhere else and dont waste it on me.
You dont know a thing about me. You just might be shocked and feel silly if you did.
I doubt it though based on your offhand uninformed verbal diarrhea.
As for the project, i think it is a waste of money when we have so much here that is just dead wrong.
Whatever your opinion though you are welcome to it and i won’t question your patriotism, only your good sense. Some people will line up for anything without understanding why.
Space program. Some great engineering achievements to be sure but Tang, velcro and memory foam just are not worth the price of poker.
Most supporters of such waste have a conflict of interest. What’s yours?
I’ve wasted enough time on ypu. Good day.
Cry baby.
This ain’t my Daddy’s NASA.
Is this john fettrrman?
You really are a dolt arent you?
your no fun...let a guy dream ;-)
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