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NASA has postponed its Artemis II mission , which was set to send four astronauts on a journey around the moon, after engineers detected a hydrogen leak during a key prelaunch test at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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NASA has postponed its Artemis II mission , which was set to send four astronauts on a journey around the moon, after engineers detected a hydrogen leak during a key prelaunch test at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The agency announced the delay early Tuesday (February 3) after halting a critical "wet dress rehearsal" with just over five minutes left in a simulated launch countdown. The test involved filling the massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with more than 700,000 gallons of super-cooled propellant and rehearsing the full launch sequence.

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