NASA’s giant rocket Space Launch System, which is planned to use it in Moon and Mars missions, failed to pass all three launch tests, and returned to NASA headquarters. This problem likely indicates that the Artemis 1 unmanned Moon mission will be delayed.
Going into space is difficult, even very difficult. The SLS test, which NASA failed to complete recently, is the clearest proof of this. In NASA’s test this week, the ground crew failed to refuel the rocket’s main stage. The test included the preparation of the Space Launch System rocket, which would carry the spacecraft before the Artemis 1 mission, which NASA aims to send and return an unmanned Orion spacecraft to the Moon. The countdown was stopped just before the rocket’s four RS-25 engines, which were fueled and placed on the 39B launch pad in Florida, were fired.
NASA stated in a statement after the failed test that the SLS and Orion capsule will return to NASA headquarters. According to the statement, a broken helium check valve prevented the ground crew from loading supercooled liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen into the rocket’s second stage. It is only necessary to get inside the rocket to repair this 10-centimeter-long valve, and this can only be done at NASA headquarters.
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