NASA to Continue to Study Orion Heat Shield Issue Before Stacking Artemis II Rocket Written 22 August 2024
Lockheed Martin engineers and technicians install the heat shield to the Orion crew module July 25, 2018 | Credit: Kim Shiflett; NASA
Ars Technica reports, “NASA would like to start stacking the Space Launch System rocket for the Artemis II mission—the first human flight around the Moon since 1972—sometime next month, but the agency's exploration chief says the milestone could be delayed as engineers continue studying the readiness of the Orion spacecraft's heat shield.”
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