Minutes into the operation, hydrogen fuel began seeping from the engine section at the bottom of the rocket, violating safety rules.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s new moon rocket sprang another dangerous fuel leak Saturday, forcing launch controllers to call off their second attempt to send a crew capsule into lunar orbit with test dummies.
Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson and her team tried to plug Saturday’s leak the way they did the last time: stopping and restarting the flow of super-cold liquid hydrogen in hopes of removing the gap around a seal in the supply line. They tried that twice, in fact, and also flushed helium through the line. But the leak persisted.“We have a scrub for the day,” announced NASA’s launch commentator, Derrol Nail.
But minutes into the operation, hydrogen fuel began seeping from the engine section at the bottom of the rocket, violating safety rules.
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