Fuel leaks force NASA to scrub launch of new moon rocket
Source: AP
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A fuel leak and then an engine problem during final liftoff preparations led NASA to scrub the launch of its mighty new moon rocket Monday morning on a shakedown flight with three test dummies aboard. The next launch attempt will not take place until Friday at the earliest.
As precious minutes ticked away, NASA repeatedly stopped and started the fueling of the Space Launch System rocket with nearly 1 million gallons of super-cold hydrogen and oxygen because of a leak of highly explosive hydrogen in the same place that saw seepage during a dress rehearsal back in the spring.
Then, NASA ran into new trouble when it was unable to properly chill one of the rocket’s four main engines, officials said. Engineers continued working to gather data and pinpoint the source of the problem after the launch postponement was announced. The rocket was set to lift off on a mission to put a crew capsule into orbit around the moon. The launch represents a milestone in America’s quest to put astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the Apollo program ended 50 years ago.
The 322-foot (98-meter) spaceship is the most powerful rocket ever built by NASA, out-muscling even the Saturn V that took the Apollo astronauts to the moon. As for when NASA might make another launch attempt, launch commentator Derrol Nail said the problem was still being analyzed, and “we must wait to see what shakes out from their test data.”
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The 322-foot Space Launch System rocket was set to lift off Monday morning with three test dummies aboard on its first flight, a mission to propel a capsule into orbit around the moon.
The shakedown flight, when it happens, will be a big step forward in America’s quest to put astronauts back on the moon for the first time since the end of the Apollo program 50 years ago.
NASA hopes to send four astronauts around the moon in 2024 and land humans there as early as 2025.
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then they would have had the specs for that stuff. I haven't delved into who all is involved with NASA's Artemis but it usually boils down to the same companies that have been around doing space-related stuff since the '50s! 
It's on my "to do" list!
It's BIG 'n heavy.
I believe all 4 blew up either on the pad or in flight. That's the danger with using 30 engines 
And China will probably forge ahead past them. They went from zero to their current Long March in 50 years (where the rest of us started a couple decades earlier). Of course they have a problem with their booster (and its debris) reentry. 
Brannon Braga "declaring" that it changed the Star Trek "timeline" and even the Trek species like Vulcans (so he could then screw with later series like "Enterprise" 
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Designed the original manned moon mission rockets with drastically less advanced technology. Smart people! Not saying the current scientists are any less smart---shit happens. Just amazed that they did it back then 
Neither of those guys are launching a rocket that is 32 stories high either. They are only at the stage (with modern equipment) that NASA (with its many contractors) had reached in the '70s with Sky Lab (remember that almost 50 years ago)? 
