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Rocket will launch a small spacecraft and take it orbiting around the moon before its return to earth. it will be a test flight without anyone on board. but the next mission will have astronauts, with the ultimate aim, landing on the moon. for now, this complex machine will stay underground to be fixed. it means we might not see a third launch attempt before the middle of october at the earliest. space journalist doctor ken kramer joins us now from florida. good morning, well, no time for you, so thank you for staying up so late to talk to us. night time. how much of a blow is this latest postponement?- of a blow is this latest postponement? of a blow is this latest ostonement? ~ , ., ~ ., , postponement? well, you know, it is a disappointment. postponement? well, you know, it is a disappointment. but postponement? well, you know, it is a disappointment. but they postponement? well, you know, it is a disappointment. but they have - postponement? well, you know, it is a disapp ....
Sense of disappointment - what is the latest? there is a real sense of disappointment here - what is the latest? there is a real sense of disappointment here but| what is the latest? there is a real - sense of disappointment here but the problems started early on, and when the rocket was being fuelled, a large hydrogen leak was spotted, and several workarounds were tempted but these troubleshooting attempts did not work and the launch was postponed. in the last few hours the team has been poring over the data and they have just announced that extensive repair work is needed. this might take place at the launch pad but a more likely option is the rocket is going to have to be rolled back into its engineering workshop. either way this will mean a delay of weeks or even months, and it is important to remember, though, that this is a new rocket. it is a complex machine with thousands of moving parts, so it is not unusual to experience setbacks and delays. but it does appear that nasa s ret ....
garrett, we certainly appreciate your insights here as someone who spent so much time in space. if you could stick around, stand by as we wait to get final word on what is happening at the kennedy space station. we did just get final word. i think we can call this breaking news. just seconds ago we learned that the launch for today has been scrubbed. there will be no launch today. the artemis i mission on pause, at least for a few more days. back with me now, miles o brien and michio kaku, miles, what do you make of the decision? not surprising. it s a complex machine. it s never flown like this before. there s a lot of things that can go wrong in space. and in particular, the plumbing is always a problem. that s what we re seeing here now, is when you have a lot of pipes and the coldest substance on earth goes through them, you end up with difficulties. tell us as much as you know about the specific problem that it did experience. again, these are live pictures ....
To answer some of those big existential questions like are we alone in the universe? and where did that first light in the universe come from? so what is the leap? how did that change things from being able to see things better to answering the questions? well, it lets them actually see into some of the atmospheres around some of these eso planets. once you can term what the planets are made of. then you can get insight into what exactly how they re formed and potentially if there is life, what exactly that may look like. you know, something else that was astounding yesterday. i mean, this is such a complex machine. it has more than 300 single points of failure. at any point in time something you know, it would have been so easy for something really terrible to happen to this telescope. yet yesterday, nasa and the engineers said it is responding perfectly. they would not change a single thing. if they could change something to this telescope right now, the ....