The launch of the 98 meter high rocket was planned to take place on Saturday evening from 20.17 Norwegian time. But during the refueling on Saturday morning, there was trouble when Nasa’s engineers discovered a leak. Now the launch has been postponed for the second time in less than a week, writes Reuters. It is not clear when Nasa will make another attempt. The next opportunity is between 19.-30. September or in October. The rocket was originally supposed to be launched on Monday, but was postponed because technical problems arose at the last minute. Also then, a fuel leak was discovered. Nasa only had a time window of two hours to get the rocket into the air on Saturday. The leak, which was discovered on Saturday, means that Nasa is once again postponing the launch of the lunar rocket, reports Reuters. Photo: Brynn Anderson / AP It may take several weeks to repair the error According to Nasa, the leak on Saturday was not the same as that which occurred earlier in the week. It may take several weeks to resolve the last technical problems, said Mike Sarafin, who is the head of the space flight, according to Reuters, after the launch was called off. The moon rocket is the most powerful that has been developed by Nasa, and is the start of a project that has been named “Artemis”. The goal is to send astronauts to the moon for the first time since the end of the Apollo program 50 years ago. Everything must be in order The lunar rocket “Artemis 1” is unmanned. The aim of the space journey is to check whether the Orion capsule, which sits on top of the rocket, is safe enough to transport astronauts in the future. In advance, Nasa had great faith that the launch would happen. – If the relationship between the weather and the hardware matches, we will absolutely go for it, said Jeremy Parsons, who is one of the leaders of the launch from the Kennedy Space Center. The weather on Saturday was also expected to be good. According to the US Space Force, there was a 70 percent chance of good weather during the two hours the launch was to take place. The launch was postponed just a few hours before it was supposed to start. According to the plan, it was supposed to happen in a two-hour window on Saturday afternoon. Photo: GREGG NEWTON / AFP Will send people to the moon in 2025 The mission of the test trip of “Artemis 1” is to send an empty crew capsule named “Orion” into orbit far from the earth, before it will go into orbit around the moon. After six weeks, it will land in the Pacific Ocean. If the test trip is successful, the “Artemis 2” spacecraft will carry astronauts into orbit around the moon in 2024. The ultimate goal is for a female and a male astronaut on board “Artemis 3” to land on the moon in 2025 at the earliest. Interest in the launch of the lunar rocket has been sky high. On several nearby beaches, people waited anxiously hoping to get a good view of the rocket. Photo: JOSEPH RIMKUS / Reuters Enormous interest The interest in following the launch has been enormous. It was expected that around 400,000 people would gather on the beaches near the space center in Florida, the AFP news agency reported. Not only to see, but also to hear what is the most powerful rocket Nasa has ever attempted to send into space.
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