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dot com and secure your seats today it's monday august 29th 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. The Artemis 1 launch was scrubbed early this morning. Here's why the highly anticipated launch didn't get off the ground. Plus, rabies vaccines are raining down across the nation, and a new classic author version of

Street Fighter. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. Well, as you likely saw, the big

Artemis I launch did not happen this morning as planned. The main issue was with the bleed process and engine

three, but it was a bit of a confluence of issues that led to the final call to scrub the launch.

Trepidation may have begun Saturday afternoon when two lightning strikes hit towers one and two of

the launch pad. NASA said all was well following the strikes,

but the more superstitious among us might have felt that was a bad omen. There was more

rain this morning and a lightning warning that delayed fueling by an hour, forcing launch

controllers to then try to make up for lost time. And then they came to the engine issue.

Here's how senior communications specialist Rachel Kraft described it on the official

Artemis blog around 6.30 this morning.

Quote, while liquid oxygen loading into the interim cryogenic propulsion stage continues and

core stage tanks continue to be replenished with propellants, engineers

are troubleshooting an issue conditioning one of the RS-25 engines, Engine 3, on the bottom

of the core stage. Launch controllers condition the engines by increasing the pressure on the

core stage tanks to bleed some of the cryogenic propellant to the engines to get them

to the proper temperature range to start them.

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