NASA’s Artemis II launch delayed until at least March after test run falls short

NASA’s test run of its Artemis II countdown ran into problems Monday at Kennedy Space Center, scrapping any chance of the moonbound mission launching this month.

Instead, the agency is targeting March as the earliest possible date for Artemis II, which will be the first crewed mission on the Orion spacecraft and the first time humans will fly around the moon in more than half a century.

“With more than three years between SLS launches, we fully anticipated encountering challenges,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “This is precisely why we conduct a wet dress rehearsal.”

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, as well as Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, will now have to wait. The quartet had been in quarantine in Houston since Jan. 23 and were expected to arrive to KSC later Tuesday had there been a viable February launch opportunity.

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