By David W. Brown and Kenneth Chang
On Monday (click here for video) we didn’t get to see the Space Launch System travel to space. But NASA’s moon rocket has fired its engines before, although it stayed firmly on the ground. Sometime between then and now, something went wrong with engine #3.
On March 18, 2021, NASA completed a “hot fire test,” when the four engines in the core stage of the Space Launch System ignited and continued firing for more than eight minutes, performing what they would do during a trip to space but firmly anchored to the ground.
On Monday (click here for video) we didn’t get to see the Space Launch System travel to space. But NASA’s moon rocket has fired its engines before, although it stayed firmly on the ground. Sometime between then and now, something went wrong with engine #3.
On March 18, 2021, NASA completed a “hot fire test,” when the four engines in the core stage of the Space Launch System ignited and continued firing for more than eight minutes, performing what they would do during a trip to space but firmly anchored to the ground.
