NASA's moon mission has been delayed, with the launch of Artemis II now pushed back by at least a month.
The space agency had been targeting a launch window between February 6 and 11, but will now aim for March.
The decision to delay the mission to send four astronauts around the moon came after the so–called 'wet dress rehearsal' failed at the last minute.
In a statement, NASA said: 'Engineers conducted a first run at terminal countdown operations during the test; however, the countdown stopped at 5 minutes left due to a spike in the liquid hydrogen leak rate.'
During a wet dress rehearsal, ground crews practice loading the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with propellant, running through a countdown, and emptying the fuel tanks.
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