CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s new moon rocket sprang one other harmful gasoline leak Saturday, forcing launch controllers to name off their second try and ship a crew capsule into lunar orbit with take a look at dummies.
The primary try earlier within the week was additionally marred by escaping hydrogen, however these leaks had been elsewhere on the 322-foot rocket, essentially the most highly effective ever constructed by NASA.
Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson and her crew tried to plug Saturday’s leak the way in which they did the final time: stopping and restarting the stream of super-cold liquid hydrogen in hopes of eradicating the hole round a seal within the provide line. They tried that twice, the truth is, and in addition flushed helium by means of the road. However the leak persevered.
