NASA’s Orion crew capsule sits atop the Space Launch System moon rocket ahead of the Artemis II mission on Launch Complex 39-B at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on Feb. 1, 2026. T.J. Muscaro/The Epoch Times
NASA’s hopes of sending astronauts around the moon as early as March 6 appear to have ended just as they began.
The space agency completed what it described as a successful wet dress rehearsal from Feb. 17–19. The four astronauts had been in pre-launch quarantine for less than a day.
T.J. Muscaro is an award-winning reporter and NASA Correspondent for The Epoch Times, covering the Artemis program, Space Force, and other public and private ambitions within the growing space industry. Based in Tampa, Florida, he also covers stories of extreme weather and disaster relief, as well as various matters of national and international politics.
