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They only have about an hour and a half. so, thats the bad news. but the good news is the weather forecast is looking very good. weve got an 80% chance of favorable weather conditions at the end of that launch window. that is so critical because you cannot have even the slightest bit of precipitation in the air for a launch like this. listen to the artemis i launch weather officer when i asked her about precipitation just yesterday. how much rain is acceptable? >> no rain is acceptable to fly th...

This type of fuel for the first time in a long time. and a lot of the old shuttle folks have retired. so this is part of the issue when youre working through a first test flight. yes, theres engineering and mechanical constraints, but its also about getting this work force up to speed. its more than that. its kind of like getting comfortable with -- getting comfortable with the risk. how much of the leak or how much of going out of the deviation of the sensors is appropriate? and what are they c...

Is a test flight and we have a lot to learn, we are going to encounter lots of— to learn, we are going to encounter lots of issues, that isjust part of the process. i know people are excited — the process. i know people are excited to— the process. i know people are excited to see the launch, but it is important — excited to see the launch, but it is important that we get everything i’ilht important that we get everything right so— important that we get everything right so when the v...

Space center, thank you so much. lets get a quick look at your weather forecast with meteorologist britley ritz. shes at the cnn weather center right now. they have these complications with the rocket. theyre trying to get that fixed. theyre trying to make it into that two-hour window later in the afternoon. how do you think the weather is going to look when we get to 2:17 p.m. >> well, the latter part of that launch window is actually the better time frame when it comes down to weather to get...

Watching nasas historic artemis i mission preparing for a second launch attempt to the moon. these are live pictures coming straight from kennedy space center in cape canaveral, florida, where crews are working on a liquid hydrogen leak that delayed fueling the massive rocket. the two-hour launch window still expected to open up this afternoon at 2:17 p.m. currently weather conditions are 60% favorable. >> the mission will mark the united states return to the moon for the first time in nearly 50...

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...

Similar. basically theyre trying to fuel that main core stage, the big burnt orange core tank with this super cold propellant. its a mix of very cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. and once again, we have another hydrogen leak. it is in a different place. its now in the engine compartment. so this is different from where it was on monday. and nasa says that this is a place that has with stand four previous tests. this particular place has held before. but this time now theres a leak. so they...

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...

Movement of the rocket makes it more likely for there to be issues. and when you think about moving this four miles back to the vertical assembly building, it makes officials nervous. with that said, this is always a very high probability. this is a test flight of the most powerful rocket that has ever been built. there was always a very high probability that it was not going to make it during the first launch window. and so now, if indeed nasa said hey this monday, or tuesday, totally off the t...

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...