A hydrogen leak in the engine cavity prevented Nasa engineers from fully loading liquid hydrogen into the rocket. Read more at straitstimes.com.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - Nasa called off Saturday's launch attempt for the much-anticipated mission to send a rocket around the moon, marking
The mission, called Artemis I, is the initial step in Nasa's ambitious plan to send the first woman and the first person of colour to the surface of the moon as early as 2025. After Saturday's scrub, Nasa did not immediate specify a date for the next launch attempt. The earliest opportunity is Monday, Sept 5.
Saturday's launch attempt was more than a decade in the making. First conceived in 2010, the SLS was originally projected to launch as early as 2017. But its development has been long delayed, with its budget ballooning the longer the rocket has stayed on the ground.The rocket's development cost has soared from an original US$7 billion to about US$23 billion , according to an estimate by the Planetary Society.
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