The first Artemis moonshot with a crew is now targeted for no earlier than Feb. 8, two days later than planned.

NASA last sent astronauts to the Moon during the Apollo program between 1968 and 1972. Twenty-four astronauts travelled to lunar orbit, and 12 walked on the Moon’s surface.

With the wet dress rehearsal, essentially a critical fueling test of the Artemis 2 Space Launch System moon rocket, now back on Feb. 2, NASA said in a statement that it can no longer target Feb. 6 or Feb. 7, the first two days of its launch window. The Artemis 2 launch window originally ran from Feb. 6 to Feb. 10.

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NASA still plans to conduct plenty of tests involving the suit, including parabolic flight, which can simulate the partial gravity of the Moon’s surface. The agency has already put the suit through its paces underwater at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab.

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