Due to a technical error, the launch originally scheduled for Saturday has been cancelled. We will have to wait a little longer to see NASA’s new mega rocket take off for the Moon. Indeed, a NASA official said that the American space agency will not try to launch its SLS rocket in the coming days, as reported by BFMTV. Its launch was canceled on Saturday due to a leak during the filling of the tank when takeoff was scheduled for 2:17 p.m. local time (8:17 p.m. French time) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. No new launch date has been communicated, but the launch period which ends on Tuesday “is no longer on the table”, said Jim Free, associate administrator at NASA, at a press conference. . Read also: Mission Artemis: another failure for NASA, the launch of the mega rocket to the Moon canceled again See you in October The next periods for a launch are from September 19 to October 4, then from October 17 to 31 . Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, the new Artemis flagship program should make it possible to establish a lasting human presence on the Moon, then allowing it to be used as a springboard to Mars.