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Crew Dragon Endurance atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on October 1, 2022. Photo: SpaceXEngineers quip that FOD is a four-letter word, but there’s nothing funny about foreign object debris and its potential to trigger disaster.The incident happened on October 5 at around 10:25 a.m. ET, as a SpaceX pad crew was preparing Crew Dragon Endurance for launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket. With the four Crew-5 astronauts already inside the capsule and the hatch closed, an attentive eye spotted a single human hair in the latch seal. The…

SLS at the Kennedy Space Center launch pad. Image: NASAIan, the ninth named tropical storm of the current Atlantic hurricane season, has foiled NASA’s plan to launch the Artemis 1 mission on Tuesday September 27. As late as Friday afternoon, NASA officials were casually dismissing the Caribbean storm system, but the space agency has since smartly concluded that Tropical Ian, as the system is now called, is something to be concerned about. In a blog post published this morning, NASA said it’s “foregoing a launch…