It's unclear when NASA will resume the Artemis 1 'wet dress rehearsal.'
But that's not on the table anymore. The team has decided to roll the Artemis 1 stack off Pad 39B and back to KSC's cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building to replace the faulty valve and address the leaky umbilical.
"During that time, the agency also will review schedules and options to demonstrate propellant loading operations ahead of launch," NASA officialsThe decision, or at least the timing of it, was driven to some degree by external factors, NASA officials said, citing upgrades needed"at an off-site supplier of gaseous nitrogen used for the test."
We'll learn more about the decision and the plans going forward soon; NASA will hold an Artemis 1 press conference Monday at 3 p.m. EDT . You can follow it live at Space.com. Artemis 1 will send an uncrewed Orion on a roughly month-long journey around the moon. NASA is hoping to launch the mission this summer but won't set an official target date until the wet dress wraps up and teams have analyzed the resulting data.
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