NASA delays moon mission to fix rocket, rules out March launch

NASA is preparing to remove its massive moon rocket from its launchpad to fix a technical issue, delaying the agency’s much-anticipated mission to send a crew of four around the moon.

On Saturday, NASA announced that it planned to roll back the rocket, the Boeing-built Space Launch System, to its hangar at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to fix a problem found in the upper portion of the vehicle. NASA engineers found an interruption in the flow of helium — which is needed for launch — in the rocket.

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said the work needed to fix the problem could only be done at the giant Vehicle Assembly Building hangar at KSC. He also noted that a similar helium issue had cropped up on the SLS’s first flight back in 2022.

“I understand people are disappointed by this development,” Isaacman wrote in a statement on X. “That disappointment is felt most by the team at NASA, who have been working tirelessly to prepare for this great endeavor.”

The setback comes just a day after the agency announced it was  Read Entire Article