NASA has revealed that its massive new lunar rocket did not appear to have sustained significant damage after Hurricane Nicole hit Florida, with Jim Frey, assistant director at the US Space Agency, saying that staff should conduct further on-site checks as soon as possible to confirm the assessment. initial.
According to Phys, Frye said that NASA teams using the cameras at the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center found "very slight damage to the weather coverings."
Hurricane Nicole made landfall Wednesday night on the Atlantic coast of Florida as a Category 1 hurricane.
Frey said wind sensors detected gusts of up to 82 miles per hour along the missile's body, which is "within the capability of the missile."The unmanned Artemis 1 mission, now scheduled to launch on November 16, will be the first flight of a highly anticipated US program to return to the Moon.
NASA hopes to use the Artemis rocket to send astronauts to the lunar surface as soon as 2025, assuming the program goes as planned. This work marks the first time humans have walked on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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