It's the latest delay for the first launch of NASA's massive new rocket.
for what would be the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule.
While this first mission will be uncrewed, NASA aims to fly astronauts back to the moon aboard SLS and Orion in the next few years.Ian became a hurricane Monday morning, and is expected to make landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast later this week. Kennedy Space Center is on Florida's Atlantic coast, but the threat of high winds and other issues forced NASA's hand."The decision allows time for employees to address the needs of their families and protect the integrated rocket and spacecraft system," NASA said in aIt's looking increasingly likely that Artemis won't launch until late October, at the earliest.
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