Artemis II crew faced cabin leak warning before lunar burn

Astronaut Victor Glover reported that the crew of the Artemis II mission received a suspected cabin leak warning just 15 minutes before a crucial engine burn. Space, Around Prague, and Tawasel News all reported that the warning nearly forced the crew to abort their voyage. Space noted that receiving the warning just five minutes later could have altered the outcome of the mission. [1][5][6]

In separate developments concerning NASA hardware, NASA News reported that test teams fired RS-25 engine number 10001 on October 21 at the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The developmental engine ran for almost eight-and-a-half minutes, or 500 seconds, to support future Artemis missions. NASA News noted that this duration matches the time RS-25 engines fire during an actual launch of the Space Launch System rocket. [4]

Artemis II was the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity. The 10-day mission sent NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, alongside Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a free-return trajectory around the Moon. [7][10]

Technology Org and Starlust.org both reported that NASA has also shared updated moon lander timelines for SpaceX and Blue Origin ahead of the future Artemis III and IV missions. [2][3]