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Thunder Chicken
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Artemis
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It sounds like they are resigned to the fact that this isn't going to get fixed in time and they will have to roll back to the VAB for FTS recertification. Getting access to the leak area on the pad, diagnosing it, repairing it, cryo-testing, and buttoning it back up by Tuesday would be a stretch.
Put your SLS in, put your SLS out, put your SLS in, and shake it all about...
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That is if they can get this mission up on our lifetime.
WolfAngriff
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"Boeing effect" 
I didn't know the name. let's hope we won't discover any "NASA effect"...
I didn't know the name. let's hope we won't discover any "NASA effect"...
Thunder Chicken
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Not "NASA effect", more like "Apollo 1/Challenger/Columbia" effect."Boeing effect"
WolfAngriff
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Well, even if it's disapointing, they didn't launch. Time has changed maybe. I think that, in the past, they could have launched because of the mediatic pressure, even with known problems. Today, because of the same pressure, they don't. In the actual economical/social situation, NASA could'nt afford any catastrophic scenario, because of the public opinion. Of course, this is from my european point of view, i don't know realy what is the American's.Not "NASA effect", more like "Apollo 1/Challenger/Columbia" effect.
Hmm... my english becomes very aproximative. Time to go to bed...
GLS
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SLS might not be reusable, but this vehicle is making trips on the crawlerway almost like the shuttle did. It will make (at least) 7 trips before launching, while Challenger did 12 in total.
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BTW: I hope this time they find the time to charge the batteries on all the Cubesats.
Thunder Chicken
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NASA to repair SLS liquid hydrogen leak on the pad - SpaceNews
NASA will attempt to fix on the pad a liquid hydrogen seal that caused an SLS scrub, keeping open the option for a new launch attempt later this month.
spacenews.com
Looking to fix leak on pad, but likely will have to roll back to VAB for FTS re-cert. I think adding several weeks to the already extended 25-day FTS certification window seems unlikely. What an awkward arrangement.
Thunder Chicken
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NASA discusses path to SLS repairs as launch uncertainty looms for September, October - NASASpaceFlight.com
NASA and SLS program managers have developed part of a forward plan for addressing the…
www.nasaspaceflight.com
I thought this was a rather savage bit of journalism:
www.nasaspaceflight.com said:
Is this all because there isn't decking available on the pad for workers to access the system? Or is there some special equipment needed to service the FTS that must stay in the VAB?
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Oh boy... 
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GLS
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Well, they have some precedents for stubborn H2 leaks, namely the Challenger FRFs and then Columbia and Atlantis in 1990. Still it's sad it happens with all the experience.
