{"id":346072,"date":"2026-03-20T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/nasa-hauls-repaired-moon-rocket-from-hangar-back-to-the-pad-for-an-early-april-launch"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:00:20","slug":"nasa-hauls-repaired-moon-rocket-from-hangar-back-to-the-pad-for-an-early-april-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/nasa-hauls-repaired-moon-rocket-from-hangar-back-to-the-pad-for-an-early-april-launch","title":{"rendered":"NASA hauls repaired moon rocket from hangar again to the pad for an early April launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8212; <\/span>For the second time this year, NASA moved its moon rocket from the hangar out toward the pad Friday in hopes of <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nasa-moon-artemis-astronauts-83132fc4f86c3491984844fc309e25d2\">launching four astronauts<\/a> on <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nasa-artemis-moonshot-launch-d4cee0936115bb4d995272f7e1b921c4\">a lunar fly-around<\/a> next month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">If the latest repairs work and everything else goes NASA&#8217;s way, the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nasa-artemis-astronauts-moon-1dda9afe42ca59e34db567ec1b6cc2b6\">Space Launch System<\/a> could blast off as early as April 1 from Florida&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center. The Artemis II crew went into quarantine this week in Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket began the slow 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) trek in the middle of the night, transported atop a massive crawler used since the 1960s Apollo era. The trip was held up for several hours by high wind but completed by midday, 11 hours after it began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The three Americans and one Canadian will zip around the moon in their capsule and then come straight home without stopping. Their mission should have been completed by now, but hydrogen fuel leaks and clogged helium lines forced two months of delay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">While technicians plugged the leaks at the pad, the helium issue could only be fixed in the Vehicle Assembly Building, forcing NASA to roll the rocket back at the end of February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The last time NASA sent astronauts to the moon was during Apollo 17 in 1972. The new Artemis program aims for a two-person landing in 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/nasa-hauls-repaired-moon-rocket-hangar-back-pad-131247176\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8212; For the second time this year, NASA moved its moon rocket from the hangar out toward the pad Friday in hopes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23562,3,14503,2092,7433,13117,23561,8278,23563,13116],"class_list":["post-346072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-artemis-program","tag-florida","tag-hospitals-clinics-primary-care-services","tag-houston","tag-howard-hughes-medical-institute","tag-howard-hughes-medical-institutes-division","tag-hydrogen-gas-leaks","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-national-register-of-historic-places-in-brevard-county-florida","tag-science-division"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346074,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346072\/revisions\/346074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}