rocket meets all objectives. engineers did detect a liquid hydrogen leak earlier but a nasa official says engineers were able to troubleshoot the issue and manage the leak. wednesday s test result will determine when it launches around the moon and back. they ll meet sunday to discuss the results and assess a potential launch date which could be as soon as tuesday. nasa s first salvadorian american astronaut is now at the international space station. and liftoff. a sunset start to the mission of rubio and patellan and then to the space station. a russian ship blasted off
NASA will attempt to launch its Artemis I moon mission on September 27 after two failures, with a potential backup opportunity of October 2 under review.
artemis one a liquid hydrogen leak is to blame. christian fisher has the latest. reporter: hey, jessica. the problem is that nasa needs to fix this hydrogen leak and it was a big one today, much bigger than the one they encountered on monday during the first launch attempt. so to fix it, they have two options. they can try to fix it on the launch pad or they can roll the entire rocket back to the vehicle assembly building, which is essentially the garage. but to do that, it takes up to three and a half days to do it, a very long period of time. you have to move this rocket very slowly. so either way, whether they make the repairs on the launch pad or at the vab, they are not going to make this launch window that ends on tuesday so that pushes it back to a september, end of september launch attempt at the very earliest but more likely, this thing would not launch until october at the earliest.
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first off, what s your reaction to this liquid hydrogen leak. how big of a setback is it? you know, good morning and thanks for having me. it s space flight. space is hard. and we find little dings along the way, but we make them work. and i have incredible confidence in the nasa team. we do have a lot of experience with these type of things. as kristin mentioned, they fixed one just from the attempt earlier this week already and they have a few things still up their sleeve to try to reseal that valve. give them a chance. we still have a chance at this. colonel, you noted a couple tricks up their sleeve to reseal the valve. we re getting update into my inbox from nasa. they re again stopping the flow of liquid hydrogen into the core stage tank to try another