Technology & Science
Leak-Free Wet Dress Rehearsal Clears Artemis II for Early-March Launch Despite Unresolved Heat-Shield Risks
On 20 Feb 2026 NASA completed a second, leak-free wet dress rehearsal of the SLS rocket, removing the hydrogen-leak constraint and tentatively green-lighting a 6 Mar crewed lunar fly-by even though engineers decided to fly with the same Orion heat-shield design that shed material on Artemis I.