SLS rolled back to launch site for dress rehearsal countdown
NASA engineers today returned the agency’s SLS rocket to its launchpad for its next attempt to complete a full dress rehearsal countdown, completing the journey from the vehicle assembly building in 8 hours.
They will spend the next two weeks preparing the rocket for that dress rehearsal, with the two-day countdown to begin no no earlier than June 17th.
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NASA engineers today returned the agency’s SLS rocket to its launchpad for its next attempt to complete a full dress rehearsal countdown, completing the journey from the vehicle assembly building in 8 hours.
They will spend the next two weeks preparing the rocket for that dress rehearsal, with the two-day countdown to begin no no earlier than June 17th.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
If the SLS passes its wet dress rehearsal, and EPA gives SpaceX the go-ahead in mid-June, we could see the start of an epic race between SLS and Starship to be the first to fly! If SpaceX gets to fly from Boca Chica, it may well win, but if it has to re-position to Cape Canaveral, SLS probably has the advantage. So SLS may hold the title of largest rocket to fly, but the smart money says it won’t be for long!
Or will SpaceX be presented with a set of compliance requirements that are achievable enough to tempt it to continue efforts at Boca Chica until they can be met? An even more bizarre possibility looms… what if SpaceX is blocked, but the public uproar is so loud that Biden sees the chance to win votes in November by issuing an Executive Order to allow SpaceX to proceed! Just think, it might force Musk to keep a low profile instead of being anti-Biden, and certainly win votes in south Texas, where Dems are in trouble anyway!
I hope SpaceX gets approval to launch and we have a clean race! If they do, I’ll bet they win!
the public uproar is so loud that Biden sees the chance to win votes in November by issuing an Executive Order to allow SpaceX to proceed!
Ha ha ha, <gasp>, ha ha ha, <gasp>
You greatly overestimate the number of people who care about SpaceX and greatly underestimate the ability to manufacture votes. “win votes [based on supporting American business]” – how quaintly last century.
Well, I did use the term “bizarre possibility”.
Am I paranoid to wonder if the Biden regime might try to take SpaceX from Elon Musk?
Yes, I am.
This rocket is threatening to log more miles on the ground than it will in the air.
SLS Tower news coming this week.
https://twitter.com/sciguyspace/status/1534534706095595521?s=21&t=yReKdJCGhKfuxYygJE3u8g
Gary: See my essay on this IG report, posted two hours ago.