After a decision is made to transfer the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft for Artemis II to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, weather permitting, NASA will begin the transfer this Tuesday, February 24, from the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
After that, the engineers continued preparations for the move find a problem with the flow of helium into the booster stage of the rocket. On February 21, officials decided to remove the newly installed platforms before high winds hit the Space Coast, preparing teams to move while the issue was discussed.
Need to go back to VAB in Kennedy Determine the cause of the problem and solve it. According to NASA, the teams are looking at the exact time to begin the transfer of about six and a half kilometers in a few hours.
The quick work to begin preparations for the return of the rocket and spacecraft to the VAB potentially preserves the April launch window pending the results of data inference, repair efforts and how the schedule shapes up in the coming days and weeks. Artemis II crew members left quarantine on Saturday night and they stay in Houston.
