U.S. VP Harris greets NASA team after delay of new moon rocket launch

Record ID: 1686654

  • Title: U.S. VP Harris greets NASA team after delay of new moon rocket launch
  • Date: 29th August 2022
  • Summary: CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 29, 2022) (REUTERS) WIDE SHOT OF MOON ROCKET SITTING ON LAUNCH PAD / SPECTATORS WAITING FOR LAUNCH TIGHT SHOT OF ROCKET SPECTATORS WAITING AS THE COUNTDOWN CLOCK TICKS DOWN
  • Embargoed: 12th September 2022 15:10
  • Keywords: Cape Canaveral Kennedy Space Center NASA Space Launch System (SLS) rocket U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris launch scrubbed moon rocket
  • Location: CAPE CANAVERAL + COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES
  • City: CAPE CANAVERAL + COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Science,Space Exploration,United States
  • Reuters ID: LVA001127629082022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: An engine problem forced NASA on Monday (August 29) to postpone for at least four days the launch of its colossal next-generation rocketship on a long-awaited debut test flight around the moon and back 50 years after Apollo's last lunar mission.
    The countdown was halted about 40 minutes before launch time as the 32-story-tall, two-stage Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its Orion crew capsule awaited liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
    Disappointed spectators who had gathered around the site promptly packed up their chairs, as U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris - who had arrived shortly ahead of the scheduled launch - greeted members of the NASA team.
    The U.S. space agency cited a problem on one of the rocket's main engines after launch teams had begun filling its core fuel tanks with super-cooled liquid oxygen and hydrogen propellants. Mission engineers struggled to properly condition that engine to the right temperature for launch, the agency said.
    NASA did not give a new launch date but said its first available backup launch opportunity was set for Friday, Sept. 2.
    (Production: Maria Alejandra Cardona, Vanessa Johnston)
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