Feb. 17 (UPI) -- NASA is planning for a second wet dress rehearsal for its Artemis II test flight on Thursday in preparation for a full launch as early as next month.
Launch controllers are arriving at the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday to begin the countdown to Thursday's simulated launch time. The crew for Artemis II is not taking part in the wet dress rehearsal.
The test window opens at 8:30 p.m. EST, on Thursday. NASA will stream the wet dress rehearsal and provide updates on the Artemis blog.
Thursday's test will involve loading more than 700,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen onto the Space Launch System rocket. Launch controllers will perform a countdown to T-minus one minute and 30 seconds, pause for three minutes, count down to 33 seconds and pause again. The countdown clock will then reset to 10 minutes and count down one more time.
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