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hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. nasa tried and failed again on saturday to get its space launch system vehicle to lift off from florida's kennedy space center. the countdown had to be halted because of a fuel leak — the second postponement in a week. the artemis programme aims to return humans to the moon in 2025, but the nasa team have suggested that there may now be a significant delay to the project. our science editor, rebecca morelle, gave us the latest from kennedy space center, in florida. there is a real sense of disappointment here but t...

hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. nasa tried and failed again on saturday to get its space launch system vehicle to lift off from florida's kennedy space center. the countdown had to be halted because of a fuel leak — the second postponement in a week. the artemis programme aims to return humans to the moon in 2025, but the nasa team have suggested that there may now be a significant delay to the project. our science editor, rebecca morelle, gave us the latest from kennedy space center, in florida. there is a real sense of disappointment here at the ken...

Month or so. this is a new vehicle and these things happen, unfortunately. it is using heritage hardware, the space shuttle main engine is very well understood, it is using the backbone, if you will, of the external tank of the shuttle, also well understood, so i am a little surprised that there have been the issues that have been but, you know, we have to deal with it and flight when we are ready. lastly, and briefly, we want to try to get humans back on the moon as soon as possible is the aim of nasa, 2025, what is your betting on whether that actually happens? i don't think we will get huma...

But, yeah, the options going forward are just to go ahead and fix this problem and try to fly as soon as we can. there are other constraints, of course, the availability of the range over at the launch facility and so i think we are looking at, it was said earlier, if it's not going to be in the next week or so, it will be in the next several weeks or if we have to roll back it will be a month or so. this is a new vehicle and these things happen, unfortunately. it is using heritage hardware, the space shuttle nain engine is very well understood, it is using the backbone, if you will, of the ex...