Mention anything you want – living in the past seems to be kind of your specialty. I suppose that’s why you continue to refer to SpaceX’s south TX factory and launch site as “Boca” instead of Starbase, its actual legal name these days.

Also feel free to ignore any minor differences between SpaceX vehicle development problems and those of MSFC and its legacy contractors – like, say, the fact that SpaceX isn’t planning to fly any people aboard still-iffy vehicles.

Artemis II is the same as Artemis I–
like the exploding Dragon capsule before the burst disk was the same as the ones after it.

Oh–was I not supposed to mention that, or the second hernia at Boca?

Edward: Ditto for me.

I am worried.

Second paragraph of the linked press release (emphasis mine):

“The upcoming wet dress rehearsal is a prelaunch test to fuel the rocket. During the rehearsal, teams demonstrate the ability to load more than 700,000 gallons of cryogenic propellants into the rocket, conduct a launch countdown, and practice safely removing propellant from the rocket without astronauts inside the spacecraft.”

These are potentially dangerous tests as the glitchy and error-prone semi-comedic WDR process for Artemis 1 reminded us. NASA will be taking quite enough liberties with the lives of the Artemis 2 crew without also gratuitously sticking them atop a rocket while the ground crew practices something they’ve had no real experience with in 3-1/2 years. It would be bad – and stupid – enough to lose the crew in space, but far worse to lose them in another Apollo 1-esque catastrophe on the ground.