NASA Revamps, Delays SLS Tanking Test

Credit: Joel Kowsky/NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL—Problems with a helium isolation check valve on the upper stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket prompted NASA on April 9 to revise plans for a full tanking test and to delay a modified wet dress rehearsal (WDR) to April 14. Instead of filling the SLS core and Interim Cryogenic...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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