- On Saturday, the US space agency Nasa wants to make a new attempt to launch its new moon rocket. This was announced by NASA representative Mike Sarafin, who is responsible for the unmanned Artemis 1 mission, at a press conference on Tuesday.
- NASA had to cancel the first test flight originally planned for Monday shortly before takeoff from Cape Canaveral in Florida due to technical problems: There were problems with one of the four main engines of the SLS rocket.
NASA has set itself an ambitious goal: 50 years after the last moon landing, it wants to send a rocket to the moon again. The task of the Artemis 1 mission is to test the most powerful launch vehicle to date and the Orion capsule at the top under real conditions.
The follow-up mission Artemis 2 is to bring astronauts into a lunar orbit, with Artemis 3 a moon landing should succeed at the earliest in 2025. In the long term, however, it is about a manned mission to Mars.