Nasa has targeted Nov. 14 for a third attempt to launch its big, next-generation rocketship, the U.S. space agency said, after weeks of technical setbacks and foul weather delayed the uncrewed inaugural Artemis mission to the moon. | Reuters
Nasa officials have previously said that a hydrogen fuel leak that forced them to scrub the last countdown three hours before liftoff has since been resolved.
The latest string of difficulties in recent months come at the tail end of a rocket development program more than a decade in the making, with years of delays and billions of dollars in cost overruns under Nasa’s SLS and Orion contracts with Boeing Co and Lockheed Martin Corp, respectively. Artemis I, aimed at launching the Orion capsule on an uncrewed test flight to the moon and back, would mark the debut voyage of both the SLS rocket and Orion a half century after the final lunar mission of Apollo, forerunner of the Artemis program.
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