Artemis I’s mission profile involves more than a month of travel around the far side of the moon and back to Earth for a blazing fast re-entry and splashdown return in the ocean.
NASA’s 30-story Space Launch System rocket will not fly next week and may return to the space agency’s massive Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center for troubleshooting.
Engineers will attempt to address the liquid hydrogen leak that prevented it from blasting off Saturday morning.
This follows separate engine issues that scrubbed the initial launch attempt of the Artemis 1 mission on Monday.
The leak first cropped up as NASA began loading the liquid hydrogen propellant at around 7:15 a.
