Members of the cryogenics team at NASA have said they are busy finessing practices for the Artemis missions, including improving ground capabilities and logging further training hours.
In January 2024, NASA made the call to push each of its Artemis missions back by a year and said then that it would use the time to learn lessons from the first mission to better prepare for future space flights.
Speaking to gasworld, Joe Pavicic, Operations Project Engineer and cryogenics specialist for NASA’s Artemis missions, said, “We can’t plan for every possible outcome – the unexpected is still part of what we do. Take the Artemis I mission: we had seven different tanking events along the way.”
Pavicic said that lessons were learned from the hydrogen leak that pushed back the Artemis I launch, as well as a series of other issues.
