The flight debut of NASA's mega moon rocket faces additional delays following a string of failed fueling tests.
in early to mid-June. The next opportunity to send an empty capsule to the moon on a test flight would be at the end of June or July.
The 30-story Space Launch System rocket has been on the pad at Kennedy Space Center for the past month. It will return to the hangar next week for valve and fuel leak repairs. Thecropped up earlier this month, preventing NASA from filling the rocket's fuel tanks for a critical dress rehearsal. The rocket will likely spend weeks in the hangar before heading back to the pad for a testing redo, said launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson."It's just a matter of what's the right time, what's the right way to do that," said Tom Whitmeyer, a NASA deputy associate administrator.under its belt before putting astronauts on board for the second launch, a lunar flyaround targeted for 2024.
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