NASA is just days away from its first chance to launch Artemis 2, the first astronaut mission to the moon since 1972, and will attempt a critical test for the lunar flight on Monday, Feb. 2.

NASA is racing toward its first crewed trip around the Moon in more than fifty years, but the countdown is unfolding under an unusual cloud of technical unease. The Artemis II mission will send four astronauts around the Moon and back in the Orion capsule,

NASA is just days away from its first chance to launch Artemis 2, the first astronaut mission to the moon since 1972, and will attempt a critical test for the lunar flight on Monday, Feb. 2.

Teams will be filling the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft with 700,000 gallons of cryogenic propellant during the wet dress rehearsal at KSC’s Launch Pad 39-B that will bring the count...