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NASA hauls moon rocket off launch pad to fix another launch-delaying malfunction

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NASA hauled its Artemis II moon rocket off its seaside pad Wednesday for a slow trip back to a processing facility to track down and fix a helium pressurization problem that delayed launch of four astronauts on a flight around the moon from this month to at least April 1. A 6.6-million-pound Apollo-era crawler-transporter rolled … Read more

Artemis rocket heads back to its hangar for repairs as moonshot put on hold

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NASA on Wednesday is set to roll its enormous Space Launch System rocket back to the hangar for repairs, a move that will delay the launch of four astronauts on a long-awaited flight around the moon by at least a month. The 322-foot-tall rocket has been sitting out at the launch pad at Florida’s Kennedy … Read more