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You know, one thing that s really fascinating about this rocket, as well, is that, you know, it it reuses so many parts of the space shuttle. it s not just those engines down at the bottom. they ve also reused these two white solid rocket boosters on either side. they re all made from multiple different space shuttle missions. in fact, two of the pieces on here were used during my dad s space shuttle flight back in 1985. and so they ve really cobbled them all together. my dad s flight was scrubbed five times before they finally launched. wow. reporter: bill nelson, nasa administrator, said this morning that he scrubbed four times, so that just goes to show you, you know, scrubs are very normal when it comes to spaceflight and especially with a test flight which is what happened here this morning. they always say space is hard, right, and this this one of the signs of that. yeah. we ll be seeing a lot of you down there until this thing actually takes off. reporter: yeah. and ....
The issue that came up was an engine bleed that couldn t be remedied, but the rocket is currently in a stable configuration. when it ultimately does take off, the artemis i will set the stage for nasa s goal to land the first woman and the first person of color on the moon by 2025, and eventually tackle human exploration of mars. and a lot of new experiments for the moon. cnn s space and defense correspondent kristin fisher is live at the kennedy space center. a lot of stops and starts, questions if they could complete this and now the scrub. do we know the full scope? are rt we don t know the full scope. about 91 nasa engineers are trying to figure out if this is a few day delay or, perhaps, longer. we have a backup launch attempt on friday. a third attempt on monday. ....
Update a press conference from nasa in about four hours we re told. a little more information then. all right. thanks so much for the reporting. we re joined by retired nasa astronaut leroy chow. great to have you. thank you, sorry today didn t go as planned, but as we said it takes a long time, right, and you do it when it s right. so when it s right, we re going to see something remarkable, right. it s not only going to go to the moon but beyond, and this final sort of goal of this program is mars. talk to us about how they re intertwined. sure. so this is the first step toward trying to get to mars, get a crude to mars. as you know, the last time we landed humans on the moon was 1972. so just about 50 years ago. so we need to kind of relearn how to do those things. we need to learn how to land humans on another planetary body. the moon is a great place to develop and test your hardware, ....
The mission s ambitious agenda remains landing the first woman and first person of color on the moon. this by 2025. also going further afield, ultimately getting humans to land on the surface of mars. but before we get there, artemis 1 will need to fly around the moon using the most powerful rocket to launch since saturn 5 took astronauts to the moon for the last time back in 1972. space and defense correspondent kristin fisher is live from kennedy space center. you are ready to see it take off like we all were, so tell us what what the final issue really was here that led to this scrub. reporter: yeah, the nasa administrator, bill nelson, put it simply. he said, we don t launch until it s right. and today it wasn t right. the main issue, the final issue ended up being an issue with one of the main rocket engines, and i m going to show you what i m talking about with this model of the space shuttle, it s not the sls artemis rocket, but it s ....
thank you. well, nasa is getting ready to party like it s 1969. sorry about that. but it is kind of funny. the space agency is about to lunch launch its first flight to the moon in decades, and the excitement is building. i ll talk with a retired astronaut about the new era for space travel and the prospect of humans going back up there, next. ....