Fuel leak forced NASA to stop countdown

Everything was ready for the beginning of the return of mankind to the moon. However, during final preparations for the launch of the SLS rocket, NASA interrupted the countdown due to a fuel leak.

Flight is no longer possible, but the space agency is analyzing what happened.

Second Information at NASA, the leak occurred in the same place where the seeps appeared during the spring countdown.

Upon discovering the leak, launch controllers aborted the resupply operation, which had already been delayed by an hour due to a sea storm.

The process was slowly restarted to see if the hydrogen leak got worse, which, if it did, should end the countdown.

Artemis I: There may still be a release

The unmanned rocket launch is scheduled for today, during a two-hour "window of opportunity" that opens at 13:33 Lisbon time.

NASA has indicated that if flight is not possible today, there will be two more possible dates, September 2 and 5.

This test flight from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is designed to place a crewed capsule into orbit around the Moon for the first time in 50 years.

At 98 meters tall, the rocket is the most powerful rocket ever built by NASA, surpassing the Saturn V that put astronauts on the moon half a century ago.

The launch is intended to place the Orion capsule into lunar orbit, which instead of astronauts carries three test dummies. The lunar orbit mission is expected to last six weeks.

All this as part of a mission worth over $93 billion. But… will we see the Orion spacecraft and the SLS rocket take off to the moon today?

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