NASA's Lunar Artemis 1 mission rehearsals will be postponed until the weekend as it will use the huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to send unmanned orion spacecraft month-long mission around the moon which is expected to start in June.
It was planned that the test of the spacecraft should take place on April 1st, before it was delayed to April 3rd, then it was re-scheduled to April 4.
Finally, it was delayed to the next weekend.
In February, the leading space agency, NASA, announced postponing its lunar mission, Artemis 1, launching once again to April or May, after it was postponed last year to this February.
The manager of the Artemis 1 program Mike Bolger said: “Ultimately, we’re going to launch this flight hardware when the flight hardware is ready and when the team’s ready.”
More adjustments and minor preparations will be given more time due to the delay of the launch.
“While the teams are not working any major issues, NASA has added additional time to complete closeout activities inside the VAB [Vehicle Assembly Building] prior to rolling the rocket out for the first time,” NASA’s officials said in a statement.
Last year, the agency postponed its plans for the re-sending manned missions to the moon due to COVID-19’s economic aftermath, in addition to the high increase in the mission’s budget drove the agency to delay the launching of its first exploratory mission to the moon.
Before issuing its latest decision of delaying the mission, NASA completed the installation of the Orion spacecraft on the Space Launch System as a sign for sending the probe to the moon which was later removed.
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