NASA delays Artemis mission to moon
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With the wet dress rehearsal, essentially a critical fueling test of the Artemis 2 Space Launch System moon rocket, now back on Feb. 2, NASA said in a statement that it can no longer target Feb. 6 or Feb. 7, the first two days of its launch window. The Artemis 2 launch window originally ran from Feb. 6 to Feb. 10.
Video shows the NASA WB-57 plane touching down with a jolt, its wings bouncing as yellow fire and white smoke bursts from beneath it.
Both crew members exited safely after NASA's WB-57 research plane made an emergency belly landing in Houston following landing gear failure.
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Viewer video captured a NASA research plane making a belly landing at Ellington Airport in Houston.
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Dramatic video footage showed flames billowing from the bottom of a NASA research plane as it made an emergency belly landing at a Texas airport Tuesday. The NASA WB-57 aircraft was forced to slide gears-up — or without its landing equipment deployed — onto the runway at Ellington Airfield in Houston after it experienced a mechanical issue at around 11:30 a.
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