![]() They will go to a board and get approval to fly with certain problems not fixed. There’s always a number of things that aren’t working in the house. There are always small things that are wrong, that break or aren’t functioning correctly, just like in your house. Now, every time I was ever involved in the Space Shuttle program launches, you never had a perfect vehicle because it’s so complicated. And so they have a limited amount of time before they can launch, and then they would have to start changing some hardware out.īut the most important thing is just making sure the vehicle is ready, making sure all the main problems have been solved. can’t use them after they’ve been sitting on the vehicle for too long. There are some things on the vehicle that get too old. The other thing of course, is the technical status of the vehicle. “There are always small things that are wrong, that break or aren’t functioning correctly, just like in your house.” Because the moon is always right there, we don’t have a certain month of the year, we just have a certain hour of the day that we have to launch. This mission, going to send some payloads around the moon, so they have to have the Earth oriented the right way so it can head off toward the moon. So if they’re going to rendezvous with something in space, they have a certain launch window when the Earth is oriented in the correct direction. How is the timing for launches determined? Here Metzger shares his insight from previous launch experiences on the considerations and challenges with launches and how NASA is constantly working to enhance safety. NASA will make its third attempt for the Artemis 1 launch in October. With every attempt, as irons out these problems, the probability of launching gets higher and higher until eventually it’ll be high enough that they’re going to launch.” ![]() “I would say it’s really just the great numbers of things that can go wrong is the biggest challenge. “There’s so many things that can go wrong and it takes years of work to get everything to the point that you’re ready to try to orchestrate it,” says Metzger, who shared his father worked on the Apollo program in an episode of UCF’s official podcast, Knights Do That. Metzger notes that with a new rocket the likelihood for encountering issues is higher with the first launch attempt(s). With any launch NASA encounters issues and troubleshoots them in real time. ![]() Artemis aims to return humans to the moon by 2025, develop a sustainable presence there, and be a catalyst for deep space exploration to Mars and beyond. The SLS is the most powerful in the world and was built for the Artemis program. The uncrewed Artemis 1 launch has been scrubbed twice due to a liquid hydrogen leak on Space Launch System (SLS). He earned a master’s and doctorate in physics` from UCF. Phil Metzger ’00MS’05PhD, a planetary scientist at UCF, who worked for NASA for nearly 30 years. ![]() Having worked on the Space Shuttle program Launch Team and with NASA for nearly 30 years, Metzger has seen - and worked through - his fair share of scrubbed launches, as he estimates 50% of the Space Shuttle program launches were canceled. 3, it was an event UCF Planetary Scientist Phil Metzger ’00MS’05PhD has experienced dozens of times. When the Artemis 1 mission launch was scrubbed Sept. ![]()
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