NASA scrubs moon rocket launch: What's the plan for Artemis? | DW News

In a disappointing start for NASA's multibillion-dollar Artemis lunar mission, the US space agency has had to cancel today's moon rocket launch due to technical issues.
At Cape Canaveral in Florida, the rocket and its unmanned capsule are still sitting on the launch pad. Lift-off has been put on hold because of a temperature issue with one of the four engines. Earlier, fueling was paused when a potential leak was detected, and the weather has also been an issue, with thunderstorms causing delays.
So another slot now has to be found for the launch of the Artemis test flight, and NASA's most ambitious moon mission in half a century.

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[AaronOkeanos]

Better to delay then to risk blowing the whole thing up which would probably end the Artemis-Program before it even begins.

[olivergraham]

I was in Florida in 2014 for the Orion launch. They had to delay it to the following morning because of birds, weather, ships. This is very normal!

[DrunkGeneral]

Love the splash sound effect when the pod lands in the water

[salilbhatnagar]

Safety is important! Better to delay and repair the rocket then lose billions by launching a rocket that could explode.

[ravindrag]

I appreciate Nasa's engineers diagnosed the issue and took a wise decision to delay the launch. Better to delay than loosing the multi billion dollar rocket and setting back the ambitious project

[bongeyedbill]

Safety is the name of the game...man or unmanned!!!

[timothychung]

Interesting comments. Had this been a Chinese delayed, many warriors would have picked on that with comments like "Chinese Junk". Meanwhile, their space lift offs are in rapid successions like a cluttered freeway...

[nothereandthereanywhere]

I was looking forward for the video of the launch, shame it is gonna be delayed. But as everyone has said, better later, than never!

[willpowell]

They have three windows to launch. Everyone except DW news knows this. Come on DW get your story right.

[horserous]

After the "go throttle up" shuttle disaster, project management is also about managing risks, not just the execution.

[ThePrabutube]

Did they really go to the moon 50 years ago? technology has come leaps but the mission almost seems same old same old. Conspiracy theorists will have a field day

[josfur]

KUDOS to those in a position of power to chose to scramble the flight in favour of safety. the mindset is on the right place. people can wait a few more days to see that best fly!"

[DennisMoore]

1:21 - que the Harold Faltermeyer _Top Gun_ Anthem.

[Cybertruck_]

So do the side boosters fly back and land to be reused?

[ottermagic]

This is ironic. In 1969 nothing went wrong with the 1st mission to land on the moon. The rocket took off fine, the moon landing went off without the hitch, the spacesuits performed perfectly, taking off from the moon went off without a hitch, landing on earth was no problem. However in 2022 NASA can't even get the rocket to take off. If NASA was really returning to the moon what has changed?

[the_bane_of_all_anti_furry]

fun fact:we could colonize moon several time over with a small portion of the US military budged

[zenrobotninja]

Sad news. Looking forward to the launch when it finally happens

[johnreynolds]

I think the UK's only aircraft carrier Prince of Wales broke down, too, a few days ago.

[coreysteady]

hey im not hating or fan boying by any means, but can someone explain why they just arent using a space X rocket? i thought they won the contract

[BK-hllh]

Hopefully there's a GOOD camera on board so we can get a good pictures of Earth and no CGI