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Artemis launch delay is the latest of many NASA scrubs and comes from hard lessons on crew safety

  • Written by Michael Dodge, Associate Professor of Space Studies, University of North Dakota
imageThe space shuttle Atlantis was one of the last major launches aboard a NASA rocket.NASA

I love a good space launch, and I have been eagerly awaiting NASA’s powerful new Space Launch System rocket to take off as the first part of NASA’s ambitious Artemis Mission to put U.S. astronauts back on the Moon. But this launch has already been pus...

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