The rocket is now ready at launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The filling of the rocket has stopped due to a problem. The launch may be delayed or postponed to another day. The plan is still for it to go up into space at 14:33 Norwegian time. During refuelling, a leak of the flammable hydrogen gas was found. NASA reports that they are trying to solve this problem, reports the Orlando Sentinel. The leak is in the same area where a fault was found during a test filling in April. Throughout history, such leaks of hydrogen have led to a number of Nasa launches being stopped. There have also been delays in the morning hours. For safety reasons, NASA postponed the filling of fuel and oxygen. There was a risk of lightning in the area. Tougher than Saturn V The moon rocket is the most powerful one developed by Nasa, and is the start of a project that has been named “Artemis”. The goal is to put two people on the surface of the moon by 2025. The mission of this test trip is to send an empty crew capsule called Orion into orbit far from Earth, before it goes into orbit around the moon, and according to the plan, will land in the Pacific Ocean in six weeks. The photographers have gotten ready for the launch. It is expected that between 100,000 and 200,000 people will attend the launch. Photo: STEVE NESIUS / Reuters If the mission goes well, the plan is to send astronauts out on a mission that is scheduled to start in 2024. – Everything we do in this “Artemis I” trip, we do to test how we can minimize the risk of the manned “Artemis II” mission, says Nasa astronaut Randy Bresnik to the BBC. Hoping for good weather The project has been delayed for several years due to technical problems and bad weather. The total budget has a gap of several billion dollars, writes CNBC. But despite the delays, the program has broad political support in the US. But the launch, which is scheduled to take place shortly after 1430, Norwegian time, may be further postponed if there is bad weather. At this time of year, Florida is particularly prone to tore cities. The audience studies the planned journey to “Artemis I”. Photo: MARK FELIX / AFP This may mean that one has to stop refueling the rocket, and then the countdown also stops. Nasa has seen 2 and 5 September as alternative dates. But Nasa has good faith that they will be able to get the rocket into the air on Monday. Their meteorologists say that it is 80 percent certain that there will be a launch on Monday, reports AFP. Human dolls and teddy bears The aim of “Artemis I” is to test whether it is safe to send people into space, and whether the heat shield of “Orion” can tolerate the strain when the capsule returns to Earth’s atmosphere. On board are, among other things, torso mannequins, made of a material that is supposed to imitate human tissue. They will measure the cosmic radiation, which is one of the biggest dangers on the trip, writes The Guardian. Many people visit the souvenir shop to secure a memento from the planned launch. Photo: CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP There are also some small pieces of the rocks that were brought back to Earth after the moon landing in 1969 and a bolt from the engine of “Apollo 11”. The cartoon dog Snoopy has become a kind of mascot for Nasa after the lunar module used to test the possibilities of landing on the moon was named “Snoopy”. On board “Orion”, the Snoopy teddy bear is joined by British children’s TV character Shaun the Sheep, which is a nod to the European Space Agency’s contribution to the “Artemis” programme. The teddy bears will demonstrate weightlessness by floating freely around.
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