NASA's second fueling test clears path for March Artemis moon launch

At Cape Canaveral, in the long shadow of Apollo, NASA's engineers coaxed more than 700,000 gallons of supercold hydrogen into a rocket that has tested their patience before — and this time, the fuel stayed where it belonged. The successful wet dress rehearsal for Artemis II clears a path toward a March 2026 launch that would carry four astronauts farther from Earth than any human has traveled in over half a century. It is a small technical victory weighted with enormous historical meaning: the resumption, however tentative, of humanity's interrupted journey to the moon.