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It is important to remember, though, that this is a new rocket. rockets are incredibly complex machines and this is the one is the most powerful that nasa has ever built so they are learning about it, they are learning about it with every attempt to get this thing to lift up off the ground, so setbacks and delays aren t uncommon. but it does appear that nasa s ambitions to get back to the moon are going to be delayed by a little while. here s the artemis mission manager describing the options for repairing the rocket. the first option was to simply remake the umbilical pad, hoping that the soft goods would seal the leak up but our confidence level, given the size of the leak that we saw today, was fairly low that that would solve the problem. the team lead towards a removal and replacement of the soft goods in the quick disconnect, ....