NASA to send humans to moon
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At best, NASA could launch commander Reid Wiseman and his crew to the moon no sooner than Sunday. The rocket must be flying by Feb. 11 or the mission will be called off until March. The space agency only has a few days in any given month to launch the rocket, and the extreme cold already has shortened February’s launch window by two days.
The Artemis II mission was set to launch four astronauts on a trip around the moon no earlier than Sunday, but engineers detected leaking hydrogen at the base of the rocket.