Fuel leak interrupts launch countdown of NASA moon rocket

Early Monday, a fuel leak recurred during NASA's countdown for the launch of its new moon rocket

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disrupting the countdown in the same spot where seepage had occurred earlier in the spring.

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Launch controllers stopped the fueling procedure because it was already running an hour behind schedule due to thunderstorms offshore.

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The countdown would almost surely finish if the hydrogen fuel leak got worse

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they gently restarted the procedure, but alarms caused another pause.

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The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket outperforms even the Saturn V, which sent people to the moon fifty years ago, in terms of power.

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If this test mission is successful, it would be the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the moon in 50 years.

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