for the second time in a week, nasa has called off its attempt to launch a powerful rocket part of a mission aimed at eventually putting humans back on the moon. the artemis rocket was due to blast off in the past hour but technical problems forced the team to call for another postponement. here s nasa s administrator bill neilson. the mission management team is meeting this afternoon. they re going to look at it. they re going to see is there still a possibility now or are they going to have to roll back into the vehicle assembly building? if they decide that s the case, then it ll be an october launch. and october, i would say, although the window opens in early, i suspect it ll be more like the middle, because remember the first week of october, we ve got another crew. it s an international crew, two international participants on the crew of four that are going to the international space station. our science correspondentjonathan amos is at the kennedy space center. we
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
Hurdle and are engaged in completing negotiations to get the holdout on board. Will continue to cover the story, as always, bring you live coverage of the senate here on cspan two. Energy secretary rick perry briefed reporters for the first part of the House Reading on the administration energy goals and his department was committed to making use of a diverse portfolio of Energy Options including Nuclear Power. After, secretary perry, principal Sarah Huckabee sanders answers reporters questions including the Health Care Law replacement bill in the senate. Rick perry is here to talk about what the president and others in the ministration are doing all this week to emphasize our commitment to American Energy dominance and he will take some of your questions after that. Of course, i will be happy to set back up after that and answer questions on other non Energy Related topics. Be nice to him. Hes from texas, and i quite arkansas but a good neighbor. Thank you. My privilege to be here tod
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and you also get catastrophic destruction of the logistics chains. during the flood and immeidately afterwards, you have got to do a lot by air and by boat, many of the bridges and roads are destroyed or have become completely buggy and water is such a destructive chemical, you know, we call it h20, we call it water, it is hydrogen dioxide, it kills people, it destroys roads and bridges so it is a very difficult context to respond to. waterborne diseases, absolutely, snake bites, absolutely, and then we are coming towards the preparation time for winter. september and october is normally the time people in pakistan people prepare for the winters. we have to be prepared to help pakistan not just for the flood in the immediate relief but we have to help them all the way through winter, three january and february. we have seen in pakistan this