Here we don't go again. The Artemis 2 rocket got wheeled back into the vehicle assembly building last weekend to try and figure out and fix whatever what went wrong during the wet dress rehearsal. The NASA at first told us went A-OK. Hey everybody, I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott. This is right angle brought you by the members of Bill Whittle.com. Gentlemen,

initial reports, these were Thursday night and Friday made it sound like the hydrogen leaks were acceptable and our first man mission around the moon in 50 some odd years, whatever it's

been, would be good to go for launch during the first week of March. That was Thursday.

Friday's midday conference,

or midday press conference was all happy talk about how well the wet dress rehearsal went.

But before anyone at NASA had time to grab lunch on Saturday, agency chief Jared Isaacman

revealed that, and this is a quote, overnight data showed an interruption and helium flow

in the SLS interim cryogenic propulsion stage

and that teams are troubleshooting and preparing for a likely rollback of Artemis 2 to the VAB vehicle assembly building.

And of course they didn't end up rolling it back for repairs because if it's anything more than a simple fix, you got to roll it back. And now, I guess,

it's fingers crossed for maybe an early April launch. But here's the thing. This is why this is

as good as it gets for that SLS launch rocket. NASA's top civil servant said in early February at a press conference to Eric

Berger, these are very bespoke components. They're in many cases made by incredible craftsmen.

It's the first time this particular machine is born witness to cryogens, how it breathes, and how it vents, and how it wants to leak, is something we have to

characterize, this is all a quote, for each SLS rocket. So, wow, gentlemen, let me break

protocol here and throw this one out to both of you. The way I look at this is NASA wasn't able

to learn anything from months of delays worth of hydrogen leaks with Artemis 1, which was more than three years ago now, because both rockets are basically different prototypes of the same system.

And we're supposed to send astronauts up on this one, eventually someday, hopefully in April.

So what do we do, gentlemen? And Steve, are you saying that NASA is

basically claiming that not only aren't we as good as, let's say, Tesla is at making automobiles

today, but we've gone back to the late 1800s where we're having people handcraft parts for

this in ways that can't be replicated?

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