Engineers were able to fully fuel NASA's Artemis II moon rocket without any signs of leaks like the ones that derailed an earlier dress rehearsal.

The NASA Artemis II second wet dress rehearsal went far better than the first, NASA said, though it still found a few smaller glitches.

NASA is set to begin fueling 700,000 gallons of cryogenic propellant on the Space Launch System rocket at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday as it moves ahead with a test countdown of the Artemis II mission.

NASA has started the countdown for a second wet dress rehearsal for its Artemis II moon mission, a critical practice run leading up to the planned launch that will send astronauts on a journey around the Moon — the first such crewed flight in more than 50 years.

NASA will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. on Friday to discuss the outcome of the second Artemis II wet dress rehearsal.

NASA’s Artemis II mission cleared its final major ground test on the evening of February 19, completing a wet dress rehearsal that loaded the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with cryogenic propellants and ran the countdown to within seconds of a simulated liftoff.

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