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NASA will make a new attempt to launch its powerful New Moon rocket on Saturday.
The spacecraft is 322 feet or 98 meters long, making it the most powerful rocket ever built by NASA.
Its scheduled launch on Monday morning had to be postponed due to an engine failure.
Washington. NASA will make a new attempt to launch its powerful New Moon rocket on Saturday. A test launch was planned earlier this week. But later it was cancelled. The scheduled launch on Monday morning had to be postponed due to a fuel leak and then engine failure during final preparations for the launch, an official said. Significantly, thousands of people had gathered to watch the launch, including US Vice President Kamala Harris.
According to a report by AFFI, Artemis 1 mission manager at NASA, Mike Sarafin, announced the date of the new launch attempt during a media briefing on Tuesday. Along with this, he said that this is an important step in the US program to bring astronauts back to the Moon.
#Update NASA will make a second attempt to launch its powerful New Moon rocket on Saturday after scrapping a test flight earlier this week.https://t.co/bBdgt0cciR pic.twitter.com/9ZcphT4VtB
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Describing the first failed attempt, officials said NASA faced a new problem when it failed to properly cool one of its four main engines. After the launch suspension was announced, engineers continued to gather data and work to determine the root of the problem. The launch is seen as a major milestone in America’s efforts to land astronauts on the Moon’s surface for the first time since the end of the Apollo program 50 years ago.
Talking about the spaceship, it is 322 feet long, which is the most powerful rocket ever built by NASA and more powerful than the Saturn-5, which took the astronauts of the Apollo program to the moon. According to American mythology, it is named after Artemis, the twin sister of Apollo.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said that it is a very complex machine. It’s also a very complex system, and all those things have to work together. You don’t send it until it’s ready to go. (with language input)
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First Published: 31 August 2022, 07:47 IST
