launch, that i think she is hoping will still happen. again, we re still waiting to see if it will take place. mars, professor, how realistic at this point? well, we re going on stage one, stage two, so on and so forth. artemis i is the launch we re seeing today. artemis ii is when we go around the moon with live astronauts. artemis iii is when we actually land on the moon with a person of color and a woman. and artemis iv is the permanent presence on another celestial body. all of which will go towards going to mars some time after 2030. we have to look at the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. we re talking not just about the moon and forgetting about it. we re talking about going onto mars, having a permanent presence on another celestial body. you re looking at live pictures right now of artemis i. that s a huge rocket.
the launchpad. for now, launch is scrubbed. launch is scrubbed. kristin fisher, thank you so much. launch is scrubbed. it s so interesting to hear kristin ticking through the different problems they had but it really came down to the engine situation. michelle, tell us about the engines stuck to this rocket and why this can be troubling. they re really fascinating engines. these engines have been in space before. these are engines flown on the space shuttle. this type of engine has lots and lots of experience. i trust their judgment that something wasn t quite right today. these engines have worked in the past. they ve all flown in space before. so, you know, the best thing to do right now is caution. as they said, this is a test flight, the very first time they configured this entire rocket, gotten this close to launch. so, to some degree it s a success but a disappointment we didn t see lift-off. it s an incremental success, as kristin was saying. they moved closer to getting t
artemis rocket, the sls rocket and the orion crew capsule on top, has ever flown. we knew there was a very good chance that they were going to run into issues today. knew there was a very good chance that it may not launch today. and it looks very likely that we will not see a launch today. i m going to explain why. it is not officially been scrubbed yet, by any means, but it s not looking good. here s why. we have seen four big issues that nasa has been trouble shooting. three of them have been solved. first, there were lightning issues. then there was that hydrogen leak during fueling. they resolved that. there was another problem with what they thought was a crack in the intertank of the main core booster, the main core rocket. turned out that was not an issue. now we re left with just one problem. i m going to show it to you here. this is not a model of the sls rocket. this is a model of the space shuttle. it s really relevant to what
of the overall rocket, but it was on engine 3, some kind of a bleed on engine 3. yeah. liquid hydrogen flows into the engine, it gets lit and that s what makes you get off the launchpad very quickly. but that engine needs to be precooled before you do all of that. the plumbing that allows that to happen is not working. they ve been trying to force open essentially a door to make that happen. they haven t been able to do it. professor, human endeavor is not without setbacks. this, so far, is a relatively mild one. right. i think it s actually good news. it s good news that they caught it in time. you don t want the rocket to blow up because you overlooked some small thing and you thought you could patch it up. you re sitting on a million gallons of high-octane rocket fuel that could go up like a roman candle just like that. i think it s good news. good news they caught it in time so that we don t have hundreds of moving parts giving us a
to reconcile. yes, there are still about two more hours left in this launch window, but they simply just don t think they re going to have enough time to fix it. so, right now they are still kind of keeping the rocket in its current configuration because they want to trouble shoot this problem and figure out what exactly is going on. we still don t know how severe the problem is. is this something they can fix on the launch pad? do they have to roll it back to the vertical assembly building? that would be a very long delay. or if it s a quick fix, you know, you could see a second launch attempt on friday, or the third attempt would be on monday. but it s just too soon to say at this point when nasa officials are going to give this another go. we do expect a briefing at some point this afternoon where nasa officials are going to explain what they think went wrong and when they think they can try again. but this is exactly what happens