No Feb. launch for NASA’s Artemis II moon mission
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If the countdown and fueling test go well, four astronauts will set their sights on a Super Bowl Sunday launch to the moon.
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Artemis 2 SLS countdown begins as NASA preps critical fueling rehearsal
The countdown for NASA’s next trip around the Moon has shifted from planning to practice, as controllers begin a high‑stakes fueling rehearsal for the Artemis 2 Space Launch System. The wet dress test is designed to push the rocket and ground systems through a full launch‑day script,
NASA’s test run of its Artemis II countdown ran into problems Monday at Kennedy Space Center, scrapping any chance of the moonbound mission launching this month. Instead, the agency is targeting March as the earliest possible date for Artemis II,
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NASA will forego a February launch for its Artemis II mission after engineers ran into leaks, cold-weather delays, and equipment problems during a key fueling test that ended early Tuesday morning.