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Agreed with that recommendation. shes reviewing some options right now. but it certainly does not look good. let me break down the problem for you, sara. so this is our model of the sls rocket. you have the orion capsule on top which will some day carry astronauts to the moon, hopefully, if this thing ever gets off the launch pad. this is the sls rocket. the problem is happening right here, where the orange meets the white on the core stage of the rocket. theyre trying to fuel it with this super...

Have gone. nasa is going to lose contact with orion when it is on the far side of the moon. it will be circling the moon for about a week. to get back to earth, they are going to use a lunar gravity assist slingshot. theyre gonna fire their own engines. they will come hurtling back to years. again, faster and harder than ever before. big test for those heat shields. tiffany, i want to show you a little bit of all the components of the rocket. i will show you how well get around in there. these a...

Gigantic fireball on cape canaveral. they caught it in time. >> this is why you do the unmanned missions like theyre doing today. brianna? >> its a 42-day mission, this is supposed to be. they have to get it right from the beginning here. lets get to cnns kristin fisher live for us at kennedy space center with news that this launch has just been scrubbed. kristin? >> reporter: brianna, definitely some disappointment at the kennedy space center, but, you know, we knew this was going to be a very ...

Engineers are troubleshooting right now is theyve seen a line of frost in whats called the inter tank. there is not an inter tank on this exact model but it would be found right about here in the middle section of the core stage of the rocket. it is where the super cold liquid propellant is separated between the liquid hydrogen and the liquid oxygen. they dont know if its a crack, all they can see is a line of frost. that is why we are kind of in a hold right now and we dont know if this launch ...

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Right here and on the artemis rocket the orion capsule sits up top. this is the space shuttle. these two white solid rocket boosters, those all use parts from the space shuttle on the artemis rocket. where theyre running into trouble are these engines, these are the rs-25 engines, there are four of them that have been moved off the shuttle and on to the bottom of the core stage of the sls artemis rocket. one of those rockets, engine number 3, is running into some issues. the engineers and there ...

Events at this point. lets see. so far i did mention we powered up yesterday. later in the afternoon or last night, we did power up the rf systems on all of the vehicles on orion on the core stage. the checkouts and tests, those all went really well. we finished those into the early hours of the morning this morning. we did also work our engine final preps on the core stage yesterday got through all of those and again those finished early last this morning as well. about 1:00 in the morning, wev...

Its colossal size means its really heavy, so it needs lots of power. it has four engines, but even those arent enough to get this rocket off the ground, so what it also needs are these two huge boosters. they all use fuel, and the biggest part, called the core stage, is full of fuel. in fact, fuel makes up 90% of the weight of this entire rocket. now, you might be wondering where the astronauts will go. well, its here, near the top, in the orion crew capsule. but not this time. this is a test fl...

So what it also needs are these two huge boosters. they all use fuel, and the biggest part, called the core stage, is full of fuel. in fact, fuel makes up 90% of the weight of this entire rocket. now, you might be wondering where the astronauts will go. well, its here, near the top, in the orion crew capsule. but not this time — this is a test flight, so there are no people on board. the time has come to put the space launch system to the test. as it readies for blast—off from cape canaveral...

And nasas huge rocket. its called the space launch system, or sls for short, and its the most powerful rocket ever built by the us space agency. it stands nearly 100 metres — about 320 feet — tall, roughly the same height as a 32—storey building. its colossal size means its really heavy, so it needs lots of power. it has four engines, but even those arent enough to get this rocket off the ground, so what it also needs are these two huge boosters. they all use fuel, and the biggest part, ca...