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NASA is getting a lot of practice prepping its new moon rocket for flight. For the second time this week, technical problems forced the agency to scrub the launch of its Artemis I mission.

With the latest. >> launch director blackwell thompson called a scrub. >> reporter: nasa says its confident it fixed the issues that led to mondays scrubbed test flight and is go for a second law unch attempt. first rocket designed to take humans to the moon in more than 50 years. it is one thing to see this rocket on tv or about 4 miles away from the viewing stands. it is another to see it right here almost directly at the launch pad. this rocket is absolutely massive. 322 feet tall. its taller...

NASA's Artemis I moon mission engineers failed to fix a troublesome liquid hydrogen fuel leak, Saturday, prompting officials to scrub a scheduled launch for the second time in five days.

The uncrewed debut launch of NASAs giant, next-generation moon rocket has been scrubbed, five days after an initial liftoff attempt was thwarted by technical problems. 

On the launch pad behind me. we just dont know exactly when they are going to try again. that is going to be officially announced most likely at a 4:00 partly sunny p p.m. press conference. nasa is telling some of the vips in attendance that this problem likely could not be fixed on the launch pad. that they likely have to roll this entire rocket about four miles back to the v.a.b. where they could -- it is the hangar, where they could make more repairs and look into what exactly went wrong toda...

The launch pad just yet like the artemis rocket. but same day that is certainly a way you could bring down costs. whereas the sls rocket, nasa officials say someday theyll be able to bring down those costs but right now its approximately $4.1 billion per flight, sara. >> if they end up doing that in the future, it is one step closer to going to mars, which is pretty cool. kristin fisher, thanks so much for joining us. lets bring in meteorologist britley ritz in the cnn weather center. a launch w...

Try to make some fixes in a short period of time. they do have a two-hour launch window on monday. thats a possibility. they have another launch window on tuesday but its only like 30 minutes long, thats really not what nasa wants. so if they cannot get this fixed on the launch pad by either monday or tuesday, then its really not good, because then, sara, they have to take this entire stack, all 322 feet of it, they have to put it back on the crawler and take it all the way back four miles to th...

Sitting there on the launch pad. youre not really seeing the leak there, youre just seeing the boil-off. the leak itself, what you have to understand is that hydrogen is the lightest, smallest element on the periodic table. its very difficult to keep it from -- in a place that you want it. and this is what has bedeviled this space launch system. every time they roll it out to the launch pad and put liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen in it, they seem to have difficulty in particular with the liquid h...

Engineers had scrambled to fix malfunctions, but launch for lunar orbit with dummies scrapped after 3-4 hours; test flight is part of project that could see humans on moon in 2025

Well, the rocket only has a certain launch windows when it can go up and it is not able to launch tomorrow because basically the earth and the men are in the wrong place. monday is possible, it has a two hour launch window then and also tuesday, there is a much shorter at launch window they could try. the issue is, i mean, this is the second time they have tried to get the rocket up, thatis have tried to get the rocket up, that is not uncommon, to get setbacks and delays, but they need to find o...