Getting wired for testing ⁣☕ ⁣ NASA_Marshall teams are testing and configuring the flight software for the Space Launch System that will launch the Artemis II astronauts on their journey around the Moon.⁣ ⁣ Inside the SLS Software Development Facility (SDF) at Marshall, software engineers recently completed the first part of formal qualification testing for the Artemis II SLS flight software. The SLS rocket’s flight software acts as the “brains” of the rocket, activating 48 hours prior to launch to command all that power and energy for the first eight minutes of the mission through the separation of its in-space propulsion stage.⁣ ⁣ The rocket’s flight software consists of approximately 50,000 lines of code. To test the SLS computer systems and flight software ahead of launch, a team inside the SDF simulates a series of normal and off-nominal SLS rocket and environmental scenarios, called test cases. By the conclusion of the two-week test period on May 15, engineers had completed 179 t...