The POT decided to suspend the launch of the Artemis I lunar rocket until at least October, to avoid failures in the space mission.
The announcement takes place after this Saturday there was the second cancellation of the device taking off, due to a fuel leak, as reported international press media.
Update of #Artemis: Our technical teams are still troubleshooting and plan to offer a variety of options early next week. We are suspending any launch attempts during the current launch period, which ends Tuesday. https://t.co/umhUtbwJ4q
— NASA in Spanish (@NASA_es) September 3, 2022
some reports They point out that the test flight of the space mission could even be postponed until the end of the year, which would put man on the moon again in mid-2025, after the Apollo missions decades ago.
Future release periods will depend on what the team decides early next week, although these evaluations bring with them a delay of several weeks. the information published by the agency itself.
The leak in the devices to load fuel to the rocket of this Saturday joins the failure of the first launch scheduled for last Monday, on that occasion as a result of a fault detected in an engine and a fuel leak.
The Artemis program Its purpose is to establish an orbital station and a permanent lunar base to explore the exploitation of satellite resources, for which the five-week test with dummies will have to happen first, and then give way to astronauts who could fly around the moon in 2024 and landing in 2025.
In this context, NASA announced that the start of the unmanned lunar mission Artemis will occur on a date to be determined early next week.
“Most likely, it will be after the departure of the Crew-5 mission, which means in the second half of October,” the US space agency said.
NASA’s Apollo 17 mission, launched in December 1972, was the last in which American astronauts traveled to the Moon and walked on its surface, exactly half a century ago, a milestone that is expected to be repeated with Artemis, the sister’s name twin of Apollo in Greek mythology.
