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(20 Feb 2026)
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1. Artemis 2 fuel test on the pad

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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Lori Glaze, NASA Moon to Mars program manager:
"Yesterday we were able to fully tank the SLS rocket within the planned timeline. We demonstrated our crew module closeout activities with the closeout crew, again, on the timeline. And we also successfully demonstrated the launch countdown. And again, Charlie will talk in a lot more detail. We did navigate through a few issues. You'll hear a little bit about some of those. But overall, the countdown went very, very smoothly. We do have work to go, to get our systems ready for launch. We've already begun the data reviews from the wet dress yesterday and there's some other work that needs to be done out at the pad. One thing I do want to say here today is that following that successful wet dress, yesterday, we're now targeting March 6th as our earliest launch attempt. I am going to caveat that. I want to be open, transparent with all of you that there is still pending work. There's work, a lot of forward work that remains, including the post wet dress analyses of course. We do have some significant work to be completed out of the pad, Charlie will talk to that in more detail. And we also have a multi-day flight readiness review that will come up later next week. And so those things are all in front of us. We need to successfully navigate all of those, but assuming that happens, it puts us in a very good position to target the March 6th."

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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Lori Glaze, NASA Moon to Mars program manager:
"The excitement for Artemis II is really, really starting to build. We can really start to feel it. It's coming. And I really can't wait to welcome you all back here to Kennedy Space Center when we're ready to fly, launch and fly this mission. You know, every night I look up at the moon and I see it and I get real excited because I can really feel she's calling us and we're ready."

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) John Honeycutt, Artemis II mission management team chair:
"I had a little bit of time to reflect on the launch team and the MMT throughout the day, and I really felt like we're getting to, we've all gotten to a place where we want to be relative to how sharp we are and how we operate."

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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Artemis launch director:

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STORYLINE:
NASA aims to send astronauts to the moon in March after acing the latest rocket fueling test.

"If you followed our progress, yesterday we were able to fully tank the SLS rocket within the planned timeline," said NASA’s Lori Glaze.







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