NASA cancels Artemis lunar rocket launch for the second time in 5 days Register now to get free unlimited access to Reuters.com Register CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – For the second time in five days, NASA on Saturday halted the ongoing countdown and postponed a planned attempt to launch the first test flight of its next-generation super rocket, the first. The agency’s Artemis program mission from the Moon to Mars. The latest attempt to launch the 32-story Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its Orion capsule has been scrapped after repeated attempts by technicians to patch a leak of supercooled liquid hydrogen fuel pumped into the vehicle’s primary stage fuel tanks. . Besides the struggle to address the leak itself, the difficulty caused task managers to delay the countdown, leaving little time to complete pre-launch preparations before takeoff. Register now to get free unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Pre-flight operations were officially canceled for the day by Artemis I launch manager Charlie Blackwell Thompson about three hours before the two-hour target launch window was scheduled for 2:17 PM EDT (1817 GMT).