A problem with one engine caused NASA to postpone the launch of its next-generation rocketship on a long-awaited first test journey around the moon and back, delaying the Artemis 1 mission half a century after Apollo’s last lunar operation.
The 98-metre (322-foot) two-stage Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its Orion crew capsule were waiting for liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida in the United States on Monday when the countdown was halted 40 minutes before the launch window opened at 8:33am EDT (12:33 GMT).
