re: Who is ready for Artemis I? November edition

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Space-X isn’t in charge so there is a good chance NASA will frick up, and it never leaves earth.

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Who here just knew this would get postponed?

NASA should just officially sell their name to SpaceX and let's call it a day. While it isn't shocking that private enterprise thrives where government run/funded projects always shite the bed, reading this was just funny to me:

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The Engine No. 3 conditioning issue cropped up as NASA worked through a series of glitches during the countdown, including a liquid hydrogen leak early in the fueling process and a possible crack in a part of core booster known as the intertank flange, which connects the SLS's giant liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen tanks. The tanks can hold a combined 730,000 gallons (3.3 million liters) of propellant.

"The flanges are connection joints that function like a seam on a shirt, are affixed at the top and bottom of the intertank so the two tanks can be attached to it," NASA said in the update.

NASA engineers found that the crack was actually in the insulating foam on the flange, not in the rocket's metal structure. "That ice that formed is essentially air that's being chilled by the tank that gets trapped inside of a crack in the foam but not the actual tank," Nail said.

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After watching 2 shuttles explode because of cracks in things, you'd think they'd have this ironed out by now.

I'm sure the astronauts who will eventually be on the manned mission were thrilled to see this.