NASA was forced to end a critical fueling test of its giant Artemis 2 rocket early in the wee hours of Tuesday, delaying its mission to launch astronauts around the moon by at least a month. Now that a new day has dawned on the big orange launch vehicle, the space agency is attempting to shed some light on what exactly went wrong — and a lot of what it's saying sounds familiar.
The fueling testfor NASA's Artemis 2 Space Launch System (SLS) rocket began late Saturday (Jan. 31), and ran until Tuesday morning. Called a "wet dress rehearsal," it's a test to put the SLS launch vehicle and ground teams through a simulated countdown clock to fully power-on and fuel the rocket with the more than 700,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen it needs to get off the ground.
