NASA said Tuesday that it has postponed the second mission of its Artemis program, pushing the highly anticipated launch from Feb. 8 into March.
During a wet dress rehearsal of the rocket-towering system at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, NASA said it had run into delays due to weather and found a leak in the hydrogen tanks.
The mission is the first crewed flight test aboard the Orion spacecraft, which will send four astronauts into deep space on a lunar flyby, marking the first time astronauts have been to the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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Artemis II is a stepping stone in NASA’s Artemis campaign, which seeks to establish a long-term presence on the moon and continue research aimed at sending humans to
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