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NPR: NASA won’t try to launch the Artemis 1 moon mission again for at least a few weeks

Updated September 3, 20226:48 PM ET
By: NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE & JOE HERNANDEZ

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday before the planned launch was scrubbed due to fuel leaks.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has delayed any new launch attempt for the Artemis moon mission until at least Sept. 19 after scrapping a planned launch on Saturday.

The decision on Saturday morning was the second time in a week the launch had been postponed.

The official scrub announcement from Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson came around 11:19 a.m. ET after several unsuccessful attempts to stop a leak of liquid hydrogen fuel.

Officials announced Saturday afternoon that they wouldn’t attempt another launch during the current launch period, which ends on Tuesday. Instead they said the earliest they could try for another launch would be late September.

“We do not launch until we think it’s right,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said.

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