Page Text: written by Philip Sloss
NASA tried again at a third attempt on April 14 to complete the Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) test on its Artemis 1 vehicle. The integrated Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for Artemis 1 will be launched by the agency’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on a mission to the Moon.
After two attempts to load the cryogenic stages on the SLS launch vehicle with liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquid hydrogen (LH2) were scrubbed on April 3 and 4, the third attempt was called off on April 14 after gaseous nitrogen, liquid oxygen, and liquid hydrogen issues prevented more than a partial fueling of the Core Stage.