The countdown for NASA’s Artemis I launch is in progress for an expected takeoff from Florida’s space coast on Wednesday, however harm supported during Hurricane Nicole could postpone the rocket’s journey somewhat longer.

As Hurricane Nicole made landfall in Florida last Thursday, the high winds caused a 10-foot section of caulking to strip away close to the team case on top of the rocket.

This is the first test flight for the 322-foot rocket, scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 1:04 a.m. on Wednesday – the crew capsule won’t be monitored by space explorers this go-around, however test fakers will consume the space.

Mission managers fear the peeled caulking, however thin, could harm the rocket in the event that it severs. They are supposed to settle on a final decision on whether to push ahead with the launch at some point Monday night, as indicated by the AP.

“Artemis I will be the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to build a long-term human presence at the moon for decades to come,” NASA said on its website. “The primary goals for Artemis I are to demonstrate Orion’s systems in a spaceflight environment and ensure a safe re-entry, descent, splashdown, and recovery prior to the first flight with crew on Artemis II.”

Throughout 25 days, 11 hours, and 36 minutes, the spacecraft will travel 1.3 million miles, and when it reenters the earth’s atmosphere, it is normal to go at 24,500 mph, or Mach 32, preceding sprinkling down on Dec. 11.

While in space, the spacecraft will orbit the earth, deploy solar arrays and the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage, or ICPS, to get sufficient impetus to pass in the world’s circle and travel to the moon, NASA said on its site.

Getting to the moon will require a few days, however when there it will fly 62 miles over the outer layer of the moon and utilize the gravitational power to push the Orion rocket around 40,000 miles from the moon for orbit.

It will then, at that point, orbit the moon for six days prior to making a beeline for earth. When the shuttle returns, arriving off the bank of Baja, California is normal.

The AP announced that the monthlong $4 billion mission has been grounded since August, because of fuel breaks and Storm Ian.

NASA moved the rocket into its shed during Typhoon Ian, yet it stayed on the platform for Tropical storm Nicole.

The last time NASA sent space travelers to the moon was during the Apollo program’s last mission in December 1972.