Rocketship can expand, but only if both of its campuses earn an A or B accountability rating from the state.Īlex Jimenez, a member of Rocketship’s board of directors, reminded the crowd gathered inside the unfinished building about the state’s expectations for the charter. Initially, Rocketship wanted to open four campuses, but the State Board of Education negotiated with the charter to whittle its plans to two. In 2021, the State Board of Education approved Rocketship’s charter to operate in Texas. Rocketship cannot expand any further beyond the pair of schools. Rocketship Eastside, the new school’s unofficial name, is expected to open in August. The new school joins the charter’s inaugural campus, Dennis Dunkins Elementary in Stop Six. 8 to mark the beginning of a renovation project to transform a former office building at 820 E. Salazar joined Rocketship administrators, city officials and others Feb. Mission managers at Kennedy Space Centre have been loading the rocket overnight with 2.76m litres (730,000 gallons) of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fuel that will power its ascent from Earth, and launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson will make the final go, no-go decision 15 minutes before the scheduled launch time.Salazar is the founding principal of the second - and, for now, last - campus for Rocketship Public Schools Texas. But a host of other boxes also need checking. The major objective is ensuring that Orion is capable of sustaining human life through lengthy, deep-space explorations and withstanding 2,800C (5,000F) temperatures of re-entry to bring astronauts safely back to Earth. Nasa seeks to close that 50-year gap with the Artemis programme (in Greek mythology, Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo) and says it will land the first woman there on Artemis III, currently scheduled for three years’ time. Only 12 people, all men, have ever walked on the moon, most recently in 1972 on the Apollo 17 mission. But if the 42-day flight, to 40,000 miles beyond the moon and back, is successful, Nasa will have taken a significant milestone towards its stated goal of returning humans to the lunar surface by 2025. No humans are aboard today’s mission, for which a two-hour launch window opens at 8.33am local time (1.33pm BST). So what exactly are we watching here? Artemis 1 is the first test flight of Orion, the US space agency’s brand new six-person capsule, coupled to the mighty Space Launch System (SLS), which will become the most powerful rocket ever to leave Earth. In short order this morning – weather gods and mechanical issues permitting – Nasa will launch a historic mission setting humanity back on course for the moon.
Good morning and welcome from me, Richard Luscombe, on Florida’s space coast. 13.31 CEST Nasa rocket Artemis 1 to blast off to the moon
But this is just part of our push outward, our quest to explore, to find out what’s out there in this universe. They may be floating worlds, they may be the surface of Mars. We’re going to develop new technologies, all of this so we can go to Mars with humans.Īll of this is to develop where we may be living on other worlds. This time we’re going back, we’re going to live there, we’re going to learn there. We need to be on the moon for much longer periods of time than just landing like we used to, stayed a couple of days and left. He said the ultimate goal is placing humans on Mars, and that returning to the moon, and building a base there, is a crucial stepping stone for that journey: The launch of #Artemis I is right around the corner.Įxplore the reference guide and press kit for the mission to get all the details: /ov3KoC4eZR- NASA Artemis July 26, 2022īill Nelson, the Nasa administrator and himself a former space shuttle astronaut, also laid out the rationale in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “We must wait to see what shakes out from their test data they’re gathering now and the decision that’s to be made by the launch team about where to go from here,” he said. Nail said the next available launch opportunity would be 12.48pm EDT (5.48pm BST) on Friday 2 September, but it was far from a certainty Nasa would take that opportunity. “The team was unable to get past the engine bleed that didn’t show the right temperature and ultimately the launch director has called a scrub for the day.” “The rocket is currently in a stable configuration,” he said. The engine “didn’t get the high accuracy temperature that they were looking for,” launch control communicator Derrol Nail said, adding that the rocket would remain fuelled on launchpad 39B at Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre while engineers gathered data. Teams will continue to gather data, and we will keep you posted on the timing of the next launch attempt. The launch of #Artemis I is no longer happening today as teams work through an issue with an engine bleed.
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