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Saturday September 3, Artémis was to take off. However, due to a new problem with the rocket, the expedition from again be postponed. Loic de la Mornais east to Cape Canaveral (United States).
This is a new affront to NASA. Saturday, September 3, the mission expedition Artemis was again postponed. Just over two hours before the rocket took off, the countdown was stopped due to a technical problem. It was a fuel leak noted on the machine that prevented the take-off. Hydrogen was leaking from the craft. NASA tried three times to fix the technical problem, without success. “What is needed is the TO DO good. It has to work,” explains Philippe Berthe, head of the European Space Agency.
This is the second time after Monday August 29 that the mission Artemis is postponed. Of many curious people had made the trip again and were disappointed not to see the rocket take off. As a reminder, the rocket SLS is the most powerful in the world. His goal is to reach the Moon. Loic de la Mornais reveals that NASA fears seeing the rocket SLS “outdated” by the new rocketElon Musk, Space X. The journalist wants to be reassuring and reports that the engineers are hopeful of seeing the mission Artemis finally take flight one day.
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