NASA says Artemis II can fly without its big, broken deep space antenna

On the 18th day of the Artemis I mission, NASA unexpectedly lost contact with its moonship, with the silence lasting for over four hours. The outage began when the Goldstone station near Barstow, Calif., abruptly went dark, severing a critical link in the agency's deep space network. Controllers missed thousands of minutes of data from the Orion spacecraft and 16 other missions. The problem was rather mundane but troubling: failed aging hard drives, outdated software, and warning light