U.S. Air Force forecasters say there’s a 70 percent chance that “mother nature” will cooperate tomorrow.
If the weather is bad or there are technical problems, the flight will be pushed back to September 2 or September 5.
Some lightning on Aug. 27 hit the Pad 39B launcher but did not affect the rocket and nearby spacecraft.
The SLS super rocket and the Orion spacecraft were assembled and erected on the Pad 39B launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the Artemis 1 lunar mission, scheduled for Aug. 29.
Some lightning on Aug. 27 hit the Pad 39B launcher but did not affect the rocket and nearby spacecraft.
The SLS super rocket and the Orion spacecraft were assembled and erected on the Pad 39B launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the Artemis 1 lunar mission, scheduled for Aug. 29.
Two days before launch, multiple lightning strikes appeared at the site, with three of them even hitting two lightning protection towers of Pad 39B — one hitting tower No. 1 and two hitting tower No. 2, the U.S. Space Agency said in a statement.
