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NASA to roll moon rocket back to hangar, as Hurricane Ian targets Florida

26/09/2022 4:32 PM
Mary J. Nolasco

NASA reported Monday it would roll the House Launch Technique rocket and Orion spacecraft back to its assembly creating at the Kennedy Space Heart, as Hurricane Ian ongoing to intensify and threaten Florida.

The choice indicates that NASA’s Artemis I mission, the 1st in a collection of steps to return astronauts to the moon, will be delayed yet again — this time for at minimum various months.

NASA had been hoping that Ian would veer west, allowing the area agency to hold the substantial rocket on the pad.

But after meeting Monday early morning, area agency leaders manufactured the determination “after supplemental knowledge collected overnight did not present enhancing conditions for the Kennedy Space Centre region,” NASA reported in a statement.

The flight, regarded as Artemis I, would ship the Orion spacecraft, with no any astronauts on board, in orbit all over the moon. If NASA completes the flight productively, it would then load Orion with as a lot of as four people today earlier the moon by 2024. A landing could arrive a 12 months or so following that.

The future start availability would arrive in mid- to late Oct. NASA could also endeavor to start in November.

NASA stated it would start rolling the car back again to its assembly building at 11 p.m. Jap time Monday.