Humanity’s long-awaited return to the moon has been delayed – again – by NASA.
The American space agency revealed this morning that a fuel leak happened during the trial run of its Artemis II mission.
It added on X: ‘To allow teams to review data and conduct a second wet dress rehearsal, NASA will now target March as the earliest possible launch opportunity for the Artemis II mission.’
Yesterday, engineers filled the rocket’s propellant tanks with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
NASA said the ‘wet dress rehearsal’ was to identify any hiccups that could occur during the real launch.
The first trip to our lunar neighbour in 53 years was meant to happen ‘no earlier’ than February 6.
But it was pushed back by two days when bad weather meant the fuelling test run couldn’t happen.
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