Artemis II Ready for Dress Rehearsal: Propaganda Press Misses the Real Story of This Dangerous Mission

In the past few days, NASA finally rolled its SLS rocket and Orion capsule to the launchpad for the first dress rehearsal countdown in preparation for the Artemis II 10-day manned mission that sometime this spring will slingshot four astronauts around the Moon and back to Earth.

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That dress rehearsal countdown will also include fueling the rocket, which will have to go smoothly before NASA sets a date for the actual launch. At the moment, the agency has a series of launch windows available, from February 6 through April 6. While it hopes to launch early in that window, that hope is not guaranteed. In preparing for the unmanned Artemis I mission in 2022, NASA had to do this practice countdown