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During the test, which NASA calls a wet dress rehearsal, teams will practice loading ice-cold fuel into the rocket, conducting a launch countdown and safely removing the propellant.

Artemis 2 could launch as early as this coming weekend. If it does, the 10-day mission will have to compete with the Olympics and Super Bowl for media attention.

The delay pushes back the spacecraft's wet dress rehearsal — a critical pre-launch test — and moves the earliest possible launch date to Sunday, Feb. 8. NASA emphasized that no official launch date will be set until teams have completed their review of the rehearsal results.

NASA is preparing to roll out its towering Artemis 2 moon rocket to Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 17, and we will have full coverage of the major event here. The Artemis 2 moon rocket consists of NASA's second Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft,

NASA is racing toward its first crewed trip around the Moon in more than fifty years, but the countdown is unfolding under an unusual cloud of technical unease. The Artemis II mission will send four astronauts around the Moon and back in the Orion capsule,

The rollout on Saturday, Jan. 17, of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is a crucial step signaling that NASA is in the final stretches to get its first crewed lunar mission in five decades off the ground. That mission, known as Artemis 2, will send three Americans and one Canadian on a 10-day trip around the moon.

After evacuating four astronauts from the ISS last month, NASA is looking ahead to its next crewed mission to the space station