NASA chief BillNelson has been speaking about the space agency’s decision to call off the maiden launch of its next-generation rocket on Monday.
NASA chief Bill Nelson has been speaking about the space agency’s decision to call off the maiden launch of its next-generation rocket on Monday after engineers spotted an issue with one of its engines just 40 minutes before it was set to lift off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.
Nelson, who flew to orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1986, said: “There are certain guidelines, and I think it’s just illustrative that this is a very complicated machine, a very complicated system, and all those things have to work.”Few would argue with that, but precisely when the Space Launch System rocket will get to take its first flight isn’t currently clear.
“The fifth try was a flawless mission,” the NASA boss said. “We know that if we had launched on any one of those scrubs, it would not have been a good day.”
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