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NASA continues to evaluate data and learn more about the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s debut performance during the agency’s Nov. 16 Artemis I launch. Following an initial data assessment and review that determined the SLS rocket met or exceeded all performance expectations, SLS engineers are now taking a closer look at the Moon rocket’s performance to prepare for …
Kraft January 27, 2023 Categories Artemis 1 Also Featured In Artemis Data from

During the transition from slow fill of liquid hydrogen into the Space Launch System rocket’s core stage to fast fill operations, launch controllers saw a spike in the amount of hydrogen that is allowed to leak into the purge can, a housing covering the tail service mast umbilical’s quick disconnect, or mating interface with the …
Kraft August 29, 2022 Categories Artemis 1 Also Featured In Artemis Engineers Troubleshoot

The launch control team has begun chill down operations and resumed the countdown clock ahead of flowing super cold liquid oxygen (LOX) into the core stage tank.  The new T-0 time for today’s test is 3:57 p.m. EDT for the first of the two terminal count runs for the wet dress rehearsal.   The process …
Kraft April 14, 2022 Categories ArtemisArtemis 1 Also Featured In Artemis Artemis

At approximately 8:05 a.m. EDT, the launch director gave the “go” to start tanking operations.  The countdown will resume at 8:47 a.m. EDT at T-6 hours, 40 minutes.   Tanking begins with chilling down the liquid oxygen lines for the core stage. In sequential fashion, liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquid hydrogen (LH2) will flow into the …
Kraft April 14, 2022 Categories ArtemisArtemis 1 Also Featured In Artemis Artemis

On Sept. 25, 1973, the longest human spaceflight up to that time ended with the splashdown of the Skylab 3 crew of Alan L. Bean, Owen K. Garriott, and Jack R.
Kraft, fourth from left, director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, now NASA’s Johnson

Meteorologists with the U.S. Space Force Space Launch Delta 45 predict a 60% chance of favorable weather conditions for an Artemis I launch attempt during a two-hour  window that opens at 2:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, Sept. 3. While rain showers are expected in the area, they are predicted to be sporadic during the launch window.  …
Kraft August 31, 2022 Categories Artemis 1 Also Featured In Artemis Weather Favorable

NASA is working to fly five CubeSats from international space agencies on the Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under NASA’s Artemis campaign.    In a ceremony at the German Space Agency DLR Sept. 18, Catherine Koerner, NASA’s associate administrator for exploration systems development, signed an agreement for Germany to fly TACHELES, a …
Kraft September 20, 2024 Categories ArtemisArtemis 2 Also Featured In Artemis NASA

NASA will target Saturday, Sept. 3 at 2:17 p.m. EDT, the beginning of a two-hour window, for the launch of Artemis I, the first integrated test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and the ground systems at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mission managers met Tuesday to discuss data and …
Kraft August 30, 2022 Categories Artemis 1 Also Featured In Artemis NASA Targets

Oral histories with former NACA employees provide the human story of America’s groundbreaking aeronautical research and the technical innovations that resulted.
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The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft are slated to return to launch pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in early June for the next wet dress rehearsal attempt.     Engineers successfully completed work on a number of items observed during the previous wet dress rehearsal test. This includes addressing the …
Kraft May 20, 2022 Categories ArtemisArtemis 1 Also Featured In Artemis Artemis