NASA scrubbed its second attempt to launch its Artemis 1 test flight on a long-awaited mission to send an unpiloted Orion crew capsule on a 37-day trip around the moon and back.
calling for a 60% chance of favorable weather, engineers began fueling the Space Launch System rocket at around 6 a.m. EDT Saturday, setting the stage for blastoff at 2:17 p.m., the opening of a two-hour window.
The Saturday launch, however, was canceled due to a hydrogen leak. The decision was announced at 11:18 a.m. EDT, about 25 minutes after the team recommended"no go" for launch.forcing the agency to scrubThe Space Launch System moon rocket atop pad 39B on Monday morning, August 29, 2022, awaiting blastoff on a mission to send an uncrewed Orion capsule on a 42-day shakedown flight beyond the moon and back.
"We've got a whole host of things that could cause us to not get off on any given day," mission manager Mike Sarafin told reporters at a Thursday evening news conference."There's no guarantee we're going to get off . But we're going to show up, and we're going to try, and we're going to give it our best."NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, responding to the latest Artemis 1 launch delay, said"we'll go when we're ready.
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