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It’s not exactly the most ringing endorsement of NASA.
The head of the space agency warned Sunday that a test flight of the unmanned moon rocket Artemis I might not go according to plan as NASA readied for its launch Monday.
“You can expect in a test flight that everything is not going to go as you expect it to. That’s part of a test flight,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson insisted to NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“That’s part of, for example, developing aircraft. That’s why you have a test pilot,’’ he said.
“But we’re pretty confident about this,” Nelson added.
Nelson’s comments come at a crucial juncture for the space agency. If the moon rocket is successful during its six-week flight into lunar orbit, it could lead to astronauts returning to the moon in a few years.
“This time we’re going back, we’re going to live there, we’re going to learn there,’’ he said of men on the moon.
“We’re going to develop new technologies, all of this so we can go to Mars with humans.
