The FDA seems to be having a hard time enforcing its own rules. STAT reporter Nicholas Florko went to drug stores and gas stations in a six-mile radius around FDA headquarters, and managed to buy an armful of illegal products — from skin lightening cream to sexual supplements.
The countdown clock has just started, we’re less than 8 minutes away from the launch of the Artemis 1 mission.
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission was scheduled to launch at 1:04AM ET. But the launch is now in a holding pattern while engineers try to figure out how much work still needs to be done after troubleshooting multiple issues, including an ‘intermittent’ hydrogen leak a ‘problematic’ ethernet cable.
The ‘problematic’ ethernet switch is gone, but there’s still a lot of work to do. Right now, they’re still aiming for a 1:04AM ET launch, but it’s pretty likely that will slip into the two hour window. New launch time: still tbd.
They’ve found the radar issue on the range...and it’s a “bad ethernet switch” says Derrol Nail, a launch commentator for NASA. It’s possible to fix, but might take about 70 minutes.
NASA’s Red Crew is back, and hydrogen has started flowing again. But now the range is ‘no-go’ for launch, because a radar site is down. It’s always something.
Here’s the Red Crew headed out to fix the hydrogen leak.
With just hours to go before the latest launch window opens for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, a small team of technicians is about to enter the launch area to try to fix an intermittent hydrogen leak.
NASA says it should take the Red Crew about 15 minutes to “torque the packing nuts” at the base of the mobile launcher. Watch NASA’s coverage, or follow along with us as we watch the launch attempt.
