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Published: September 3, 2022
Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques said on Saturday that NASA's decision to cancel the launch of its new lunar rocket is disappointing but necessary due to another leak detected before the planned test flight.
The Artemis 1 mission, which aims to send a NASA spacecraft and the unmanned Space Launch System rocket to the Moon, was postponed after the rocket caused a fuel leak, forcing controllers to cancel the second attempt this week.
The first attempt on Monday to send a crew capsule with test dummies on board into lunar orbit was also thwarted due to a hydrogen leak elsewhere on the 98-meter-tall rocket built by NASA.
The test flight is scheduled to be the first return to the Moon in nearly 50 years.
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