hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. nasa tried and failed again on saturday to get its space launch system vehicle to lift off from florida s kennedy space center. the countdown had to be halted because of a fuel leak the second postponement in a week. the artemis programme aims to return humans to the moon in 2025, but the nasa team have suggested that there may now be a significant delay to the project. our science editor, rebecca morelle, gave us the latest from kennedy space center, in florida. there is a real sense of disappointment here but the problems started early on, and when the rocket was being fuelled, a large hydrogen leak was spotted, and this is not a good thing. the team tried to fix it three times but their troubleshooting did not work and the loach was stopped. over the last few hours, they have been poring over the data to find out what went wrong and they have announced the rocket will need significant repair work. this m
hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. nasa tried and failed again on saturday to get its space launch system vehicle to lift off from florida s kennedy space center. the countdown had to be halted because of a fuel leak the second postponement in a week. the artemis programme aims to return humans to the moon in 2025, but the nasa team have suggested that there may now be a significant delay to the project. our science editor, rebecca morelle, gave us the latest from kennedy space center, in florida. there is a real sense of disappointment here at the kennedy space center, but the problems started earlier on today. while the rocket was being fuelled, a large hydrogen leak was detected. and this is not a good thing. so the team tried to fix it three times but their troubleshooting did not work and the launch was stopped. over the last few hours, they have been poring over the data to find out what went wrong, and they have announced the rocket will n
month or so. this is a new vehicle and these things happen, unfortunately. it is using heritage hardware, the space shuttle main engine is very well understood, it is using the backbone, if you will, of the external tank of the shuttle, also well understood, so i am a little surprised that there have been the issues that have been but, you know, we have to deal with it and flight when we are ready. lastly, and briefly, we want to try to get humans back on the moon as soon as possible is the aim of nasa, 2025, what is your betting on whether that actually happens? i don t think we will get humans back on the surface of the moon by 2025, i think maybe by then we can get an apollo eight type mission that launches astronauts into orbit around the mode but not land, and the reason i say that is because we do not have a lander yet. we have
but, yeah, the options going forward are just to go ahead and fix this problem and try to fly as soon as we can. there are other constraints, of course, the availability of the range over at the launch facility and so i think we are looking at, it was said earlier, if it s not going to be in the next week or so, it will be in the next several weeks or if we have to roll back it will be a month or so. this is a new vehicle and these things happen, unfortunately. it is using heritage hardware, the space shuttle nain engine is very well understood, it is using the backbone, if you will, of the external tank of the shuttle, also very well understood, as are the solid rocket boosters, so i am a little surprised that there have been the issues there have been but, you know, wejust have to deal with it and flight when we are ready. the main pipeline bringing gas from russia to europe has remained shut after what was intended to be a three day closure. russian state energy firm gazprom said it