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Josh Dinner

ULA Vulcan Centaur rocket's 1st launch delayed to January 2024

A red-striped rocket is hoisted inside a integration bay.

The premiere of the Space Coast's newest launch vehicle, carrying a moon lander aiming for the first commercial touchdown, will likely slip to the beginning of 2024. 

United Launch Alliance (ULA) performed a wet dress rehearsal (WDR) of the company's new Vulcan Centaur rocket over the weekend, which includes loading propellant into the spacecraft and running through launch-day procedures up to the moments before engine ignition. That test, however, didn't go to plan. 

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