{"id":189940,"date":"2022-08-31T12:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T04:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=189940"},"modified":"2022-08-31T12:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T04:15:46","slug":"us-nasa-to-make-second-attempt-at-debut-moon-rocket-launch-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=189940","title":{"rendered":"US: NASA to make second attempt at debut moon rocket launch on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/images.livemint.com\/img\/2022\/08\/30\/600x338\/US-SPACE-MOON-NASA-4_1661779413373_1661779413373_1661903642805_1661903642805.jpg\" alt=\"The Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket will propel the Orion crew capsule into orbit around the Moon. The spacecraft will remain in space for 42 days before returning to Earth.\u00a0\" title=\"The Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket will propel the Orion crew capsule into orbit around the Moon. The spacecraft will remain in space for 42 days before returning to Earth.\u00a0\"\/><figcaption>The Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket will propel the Orion crew capsule into orbit around the Moon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; NASA aims to make a second attempt on Saturday to launch its new Space Launch System (SLS) moon rocket, five days after a pair of technical issues foiled an attempt on Monday, agency officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plans call for the 32-storey-tall SLS rocket to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, sending its Orion capsule on an uncrewed, six-week test flight around the moon and back to Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The long-awaited launch would kick off the US space agency&#8217;s moon-to-Mars Artemis programme, the successor to the Apollo moon project of the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first voyage of the SLS-Orion, a mission dubbed Artemis I, aims to put the 2.6-million-kilograms vehicle through its paces in a rigorous demonstration flight pushing its design limits before NASA deems it reliable enough to carry astronauts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA&#8217;s initial Artemis I launch attempt on Monday ended with a cooling problem with one of the rocket&#8217;s main-stage engines, forcing a halt to the countdown and a postponement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a news briefing on Tuesday, NASA officials said they hoped to have those issues resolved in time for a launch retry on Saturday. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; NASA aims to make a second attempt on Saturday to launch its new Space Launch System (SLS) moon rocket, five days after a pair of technical issues foiled an attempt on Monday, agency officials said. Plans call for the 32-storey-tall SLS rocket to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189940"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189941,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189940\/revisions\/189941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}