NASA Delays Moon Rocket Launch Due to Potential Hurricane

NASA Delays Moon Rocket Launch Due to Potential Hurricane
The NASA moon rocket stands on Pad 39B before a launch attempt for the Artemis 1 mission to orbit the moon at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla on Sept. 2, 2022. Brynn Anderson/AP Photo
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA is skipping next week’s launch attempt of its new moon rocket because of a tropical storm that’s expected to become a major hurricane.

It’s the third delay in the past month for the lunar-orbiting test flight featuring mannequins but no astronauts, a follow-up to NASA’s Apollo moon-landing program of a half-century ago. Hydrogen fuel leaks and other technical issues caused the previous scrubs.