ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA began its three-day wet dress rehearsal on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center today for the Artemis I mission to the moon.
The test began at 5 p.m. with what NASA refered to as its “call to stations,” in which teams arrived to KSC nearly 46 hours ahead of what would normally be the target liftoff. The wet dress rehearsal will aim to bring the countdown clock nearly to 0, but won’t ignite the massive engines.
“This is our last design verification prior to our launch at a design level,” Tom Whitmeyer, NASA’s deputy associate administrator for common exploration systems development. “It is a test so I have to kind of note that that we could learn something during the test and we’ll we’ll take the data and we’ll address the data as we get it.”
