exercises with china on tuesday, as relations between the two countries continue to build. the military drills will run for a week and include a number of other nations including india, belarus and mongolia. it s the second time this year that russia and china have engaged injoint military drills. nasa has postponed the launch of the most powerful rocket it s ever developed, artemis 0ne. it was scheduled to take off on monday for an uncrewed test flight to the moon. the space agency had a two hour window for lift off, but the launch was aborted when one of its engines couldn t cool down to the required temperature. 0ur science editor rebecca morelle is at the kennedy space center in florida and sent this report. it was all looking so good, even the weather. nasa s new rocket was ready to make history and head to the moon, but then the problems began. the hydrogen team reporting that they started seeing a leak trending up.
but then the problems began. the hydrogen team reporting that they started seeing a leak trending up. first of all, a fuel leak, with liquid hydrogen escaping. that one was fixed. then a possible crack was spotted, holding things up even more, although this turned out to be frost in a crevice. but it was an issue with an engine that spelled the end. launch director charlie blackwell thompson has called a scrub. nasa s administrator, bill nelson, was on hand to explain. this is a very complicated machine, a very complicated system, and all those things have to work. and you don t want to light the candle until it s ready to go. they came so close, the countdown stopping at t minus a0 minutes. there were just too many technical problems to contend with. you have to remember, though, that this is a new rocket, and it hasn t really been put through its paces, so it s no surprise the engineers were being extra cautious.
rebecca morelle is at the kennedy space center in florida and sent this report. it was all looking so good, even the weather. nasa s new rocket was ready to make history and head to the moon, but then the problems began. the hydrogen team reporting that they started seeing a leak trending up. first of all, a fuel leak, with liquid hydrogen escaping. that one was fixed. then a possible crack was spotted, holding things up even more, although this turned out to be frost in a crevice. but it was an issue with an engine that spelled the end. launch director charlie blackwell thompson has called a scrub. nasa s administrator, bill nelson, was on hand to explain. this is a very complicated machine, a very complicated system, and all those things have to work. and you don t want to light the candle until it s ready to go. they came so close,
street fighting is continuing in baghdad, between iraqi security forces and supporters of the shia cleric, muqtada al sadr. at least 15 people have been killed. now some out of these world news, well, almost. nasa has postponed the launch of the most powerful rocket it s ever developed, artemis 0ne. it was scheduled to take off on monday for an uncrewed test flight to the moon. the space agency had a two hour window for lift off but the launch was aborted when one of its engines couldn t cool down to the required temperature. 0ur science editor rebecca morelle is at the kennedy space center, in florida, and sent this report. it was all looking so good, even the weather. nasa s new rocket was ready to make nasa s new rocket was ready to make history and head to the moon, but then the problems began. the hydrogen team reporting that they started seeing a leak trending up.