NASA to Provide Update Today on Last Major Artemis Test Before Launch

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  April 03, 2022 
MEDIA ADVISORY M22-045
NASA to Provide Update Today on Last Major Artemis Test Before Launch

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 5:30 p.m. EDT today, Sunday, April 3, to discuss the status of the final major test with the agency’s mega Moon rocket and spacecraft at the launch pad ahead of the uncrewed Artemis I lunar mission. 

The approximately two-day test, known as the wet dress rehearsal, began Friday, April 1, and was halted Sunday prior to tanking due to loss of ability to pressurize the mobile launcher using two fans. The fans are needed to provide positive pressure to the enclosed areas within the mobile launcher and keep out hazardous gases. Without this capability, technicians are unable to safely proceed with remotely loading the propellants into the rocket’s core stage and interim cryogenic propulsion stage.

The test is designed to demonstrate the ability to conduct a full launch countdown at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39B, including loading and draining cryogenic, or supercold, propellants into the Artemis I rocket.  

Teleconference participants include: 

  • Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager, NASA Headquarters in Washington
  • Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Artemis launch director, NASA Exploration Ground Systems program, Kennedy 

To participate by telephone, media must RSVP to NASA no later than one hour prior to the start of the event to: ksc-newsroom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars. 

For updates, follow along on NASA’s Artemis blog at: 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/ 

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Press Contacts

Kathryn Hambleton
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
Kathryn.hambleton@xxxxxxxx

Brittney Thorpe / Tiffany Fairley
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
Brittney.thorpe@xxxxxxxx / tiffany.l.fairley@xxxxxxxx 

 

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