NASA Moon Rocket Mission Fuel Interrupted

Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) - A fuel leak disrupted NASA's launch of its New Moon rocket early Monday, returning to exactly where the leak occurred during an initial test in the spring.

Broadcast controllers shut down the power supply, which had previously been running on an hourly delay in light of storms out to sea. They gradually continued to interact to verify that the hydrogen fuel fracture could be reduced, which would no doubt have ended the launch, however warnings limited further delays.

The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket is the most impressive at any point my NASA has constructed, surpassing even the Saturn V that carried space explorers to the moon 50 years ago.

If effective, this experimental exercise would put the team's case into the lunar ring without precedent for 50 years.

There were no space passengers in the Orion container on the rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. All things being equal, three life-size models were attached to the mission around the moon, expected to last at least a month and a half.

Although no one was prepared, many individuals stuck on the coast to see the launch of the Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket. Vice President Kamala Harris flew to Orlando with her significant other, but currently it seemed she couldn't make the hour-long trip to Cape Canaveral, where she could be deployed.

A hydrogen fuel leak damaged NASA's launch test in April, prompting a large number of repairs. The demo was reworked with more progress in June, but even that was met with some leaks. Administrators said they won't know for certain whether the repairs were great until they try to fill the rocket's tanks with nearly 1 million gallons of supercooled fuel on Monday.

Dispatch boss Charlie Blackwell-Thompson and her group also needed to solve a correspondence problem including the Orion case.

Engineers scrambled to understand the 11-minute delay in the lines of communication between Launch Control and Orion that appeared late Sunday. Although the problem was fixed by Monday morning, NASA needed to know why it happened before deciding to launch.

This first trip of NASA's 21st century lunar exploration program, named Artemis after Apollo's fantastical twin, is years away. Repeated delays caused billions in overspending on spending plans; this demo alone is worth $4.1 billion.

Assuming the test goes well, space explorers would move aboard for a follow-up flight and fly around the moon and back in 2024. Two human landings on the moon could follow by the end of the year.

2025. NASA focuses on the South Pole of the Moon.

During the Apollo missions, 12 space travelers arrived on the moon between 1969 and 1972 with stays of several days. NASA hopes to stake out a lunar base during Artemis, with space travelers coming back and forth for a really long time. The next stage would be Mars, potentially in the latter part of the 2030s or mid-2040s.