NASA’s Space Launch System rocket weathers the storm

The rocket and spacecraft suffered only “very minor damage.”

NASA officials said the issue was that rolling the rocket back to the building would have been its own risk by the time predictions of strong winds were coming in. “The winds were really high and the risk of rolling — that dynamic movement, which in general drives a lot of load into the vehicle — and the risk of moving with the high winds, we decided to stay at the pad,” Jim Free, associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development, explained in a mission briefing.

The electrical connector is being repaired, but the loose material is another story. The material, called room temperature vulcanizing silicone, or RTV, has peeled away from the side of the spacecraft. The area affected is about 10 feet long and is a “very, very thin layer of RTV,” Mike Sarafin, mission manager for Artemis I, said in a prelaunch briefing. “It’s about 0.2 inches or less in thickness.

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