" wet dress rehearsal ," a practice countdown that uses real fuel but stops short of liftoff. Engineers replaced a filter in ground support equipment over the weekend and reconnected the line. This redo test comes more than two weeks after a wet dress rehearsal hampered by hydrogen fuel leaks — the same issues that plagued Artemis I 's launch in 2022.

NASA has scheduled a second Artemis II test run for Thursday night that could set up a launch of the crewed moon mission in early March.

NASA’s effort to send astronauts around the Moon on Artemis II has absorbed another technical snag, this time a suspected liquid-hydrogen flow restriction discovered during a partial fueling test on February 12,

NASA's Artemis II mission took a back seat due to unforeseen issues with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The fueling system got hampered after a liquid hydrogen leak, prompting scientists to halt the mission.

NASA will conduct another rocket fueling test as the agency aims to get its highly anticipated human moon mission known as Artemis 2 back on track.

NASA will conduct a second "wet dress rehearsal" this week before announcing a date to launch astronauts on its Artemis II moon mission.

NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission faces a new issue after a rocket test uncovered an issue with ground support equipment that could lead to another delay.