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NASA pressed Sept. 1 to resolve the propellant loading issues that triggered the Aug. 29 scrub of the much-anticipated liftoff of the Artemis I mission. ....
Campaign. i don t know if you ve caught that. jim has been hard-pressed the last few days. miles clearly deserves it more than me. chris hadfield, you ve been on multiple space missions. for folks at home, we re used to flight checks. every time you take off in a commercial airliner, the pilots are running through a flight check. they check for a warning light that is on, et cetera. i just imagine you might say that the flight checks are on steroids for a space flight because it s, by its nature, a higher tech and a more difficult thing to do. their launch control team is sitting there earlier when we had the vague hold, there s pressurized hydrogen. the molecules are so tiny, it s hard to build seals that will hold, pressurized oxygen. they re looking at how all of those things are functioning as the gases get further down the pipes and closer to the engine. ....
So that makes some significance to it. the crowd will take us back not quite to the sts-1 days and the earlier days of shuttle. but the international interest in this flight is absolutely incredible. and the fact that endeavour will be flying its last flight before we prepare to fly it to california is an understatement. you re exactly correct, the last time a sitting president attended a launch was clinton back in 1998. chas t what is the plan for the launch and do you want the president to speak before? i do not want the president to speak before the launch. i want the launch process to be as normal as possible. you know, mark and the crew will know that the first family is there, but they re focused on a successful launch as is the launch control team. what would make everybody happy to have at least the president speak to the launch control team on his way out. but we want everything to be ....
Pretty normal for the launch control team and for the crew. and as we talk about the fact that we ve seen postponements in the past, is there any pressure not to postpone this launch? is there any pressure not to? yeah. is that the question? yeah, to keep it on track, especially with the heightened, i guess, relevance with gabby giffords going to be attending, the president attending. thomas, there is in fact, i have emphasized this to the teams, both the houston mission control team and the ksc launch control teams that as far as i m concerned, everything should be the same way that we have done for 133 previous missions and for 30 years of the shuttle. we ve got to stay focused. we ve got to make sure that our number one emphasis is on safety of the crew and completion of the mission. so no, there is no pressure on us whatsoever. if the weather s bad or if we have a technical problem, then the president may miss the launch. it s a status quo for all ....