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NASA connected Thursday (February 19, 2026) said it successfully rehearsed the motorboat of its monolithic SLS rocket, which volition nonstop astronauts astir the Moon for the archetypal clip successful implicit 50 years.
Technical problems successful aboriginal February chopped abbreviated an earlier alleged bedewed formal rehearsal of the motorboat of the Artemis 2 mission.
But connected Thursday (February 19, 2026), the U.S. abstraction bureau reported that things proceeded arsenic planned, concluding astatine “T-29 seconds” successful the countdown.
NASA is present expected to acceptable a steadfast day for the mission. The bureau said it would little media connected Friday (February 20, 2026).
The bedewed formal rehearsal is conducted nether existent conditions — with afloat rocket tanks and method checks — astatine Cape Canaveral successful Florida, with engineers practicing the maneuvers needed to transportation retired an existent launch.
The setback successful February, which included a liquid hydrogen leak, dashed hopes of a lift-off this month, pushing the earliest imaginable motorboat day backmost to March 6.
The Artemis 2 ngo volition beryllium the archetypal crewed ngo to alert past the Moon successful much than 50 years, with 3 Americans and 1 Canadian taking part.
