NASA Scrubs Moon Rocket Launch Again; Next Try Weeks Away

NASA Scrubs Moon Rocket Launch Again; Next Try Weeks Away
NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sept. 3, 2022. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
|Updated:
0:00

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA’s new moon rocket sprang another dangerous fuel leak Saturday, forcing launch controllers to call off their second attempt this week to send a crew capsule into lunar orbit with test dummies. The inaugural flight is now off for weeks, if not months.

The previous try on Monday at launching the 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA, was also troubled by hydrogen leaks, though they were smaller. That was on top of leaks detected during countdown drills earlier in the year.