{"id":770556,"date":"2023-10-26T13:49:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T17:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770556"},"modified":"2023-10-26T13:49:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T17:49:46","slug":"artemis-ii-water-deluge-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770556","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II Water Deluge Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A large amount of water cascades over the edges of the gray mobile launcher at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Droplets of water also spray up through the air, creating a mist.\" loading=\"eager\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" \/><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA \/ Kim Shiflett<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Exploration Ground Systems conducts a water flow test with the mobile launcher at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center\u2019s in Florida on Oct. 24, 2023. It is the third in a series of tests to verify the overpressure protection and sound suppression system is ready for launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/artemis-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Artemis II mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During liftoff, 400,000 gallons of water will rush onto the pad to help protect NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/space-launch-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Space Launch System rocket<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/reference\/orion-spacecraft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Orion spacecraft<\/a>, mobile launcher, and launch pad from any overpressurization and extreme sound produced during ignition and liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>Artemis II is the first crewed mission under Artemis and will test all the Orion spacecraft\u2019s systems with astronauts aboard before future missions to the Moon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/artemis\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Artemis II updates on the blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/Kim Shiflett<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/artemis-ii-water-deluge-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Artemis II Water Deluge Test<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NASA Breaking News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA \/ Kim Shiflett NASA\u2019s Exploration Ground Systems conducts a water flow test with the mobile launcher at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center\u2019s in Florida on Oct. 24, 2023. It is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}