{"id":264489,"date":"2026-01-30T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/264489\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:16:08","slug":"artemis-2-sls-wet-dress-rehearsal-latest-news-nasa-preps-for-critical-test-ahead-of-astronaut-launch-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/264489\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis 2 SLS wet dress rehearsal latest news: NASA preps for critical test ahead of astronaut launch to the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refresh <\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-nasa-beginning-wet-dress-rehearsal-operations-thursday-evening\"\/>NASA beginning wet dress rehearsal operations Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MCiScakSZ2vqXwrZxDLioh.jpg\" alt=\"a futuristic looking room with hexagons on the ceiling\"   loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MCiScakSZ2vqXwrZxDLioh.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MCiScakSZ2vqXwrZxDLioh.jpg\" class=\"inline\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/Rad Sinyak)<\/p>\n<p id=\"28bf4d72-7c43-4056-85ee-280f8666982e\">Artemis 2 mission operators at NASA are preparing the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for it&#8217;s last critical test before launch.<\/p>\n<p>The SLS wet dress rehearsal will simulate a mission countdown for ground teams to power on and fuel the rocket as a final qualifying check before Artemis 2 launches to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>NASA is targeting a call to stations as early as 8:00 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) on Thursday (Jan. 29), about 49 hours before a simulated liftoff time on Saturday, at 9:00 p.m. EST (0200 GMT, Feb. 1).<\/p>\n<p>If the test goes smoothly, NASA could choose to proceed toward the February launch window for Artemis 2, which opens Feb. 6-10.<\/p>\n<p>Please follow our <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.space.com\/41418-about-us.html#section-community-guidelines&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">community guidelines<\/a>.&#8221;&gt;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-3 !text-lg\">You must confirm your public display name before commenting<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-3 !text-sm\">Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name.<\/p>\n<p>Logout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Refresh NASA beginning wet dress rehearsal operations Thursday evening (Image credit: NASA\/Rad Sinyak) Artemis 2 mission operators at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-264489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}