(4 Sep 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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NASA – MUST CREDIT NASA
Cape Canaveral, Florida – 3 September 2022
1. Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft on launch pad ++MUTE++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator:
"Well, while we don't have the launch that we wanted today, I can tell you that these teams know exactly what they're doing, and I'm very proud of them."
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3. Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft on launch pad
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator:
"You think back to previous space flights. The shuttle was sent back to the Vehicle Assembly Building 20 times. I've already shared with you my personal experience back in the early part of the space shuttle program of Huit, Gibson's crew having been strapped in, ready to go and scrubbed four times with a delay over the better part of the month. We do not launch until we think it's right, and these teams have labored over that, and that is the conclusion that they came to. So, I look at this as a part of our space program, of which safety is the top of the list."
5. Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft on launch pad ++ MUTE++
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Free, NASA:
"We were confident coming into today. But, as the administrator said, we're not going to launch until we're ready, which means we're going to step through these things. There's a lot of conjecture already. I can assure you, I don't know how many people are in that empty room today, Mike, – I don't know, 100 hundred plus folks – most of them engineers, everybody already thinking about what is the problem. And frankly, that's what happens on the loops when we're when we're talking about these things, folks are giving options. The anomaly loops are really active, especially on this one today from, from the time we first saw the signature, all the way until Charlie made the right decision, which was to scrub. So, our confidence comes through what we're going to learn in this. When we're ready to go back out there, we'll go back out there and try for another launch."
7. Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft on launch pad ++ MUTE++
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Sarafin, NASA:
"We've talked about it before. This is an incredibly hard business. This is an initial test flight of this vehicle, as was said by Administrator Nelson. We're going to fly when we're ready. And, as part of this initial test flight, we're learning the vehicle. We're learning how to operate the vehicle. And, we are learning all of the things required to get us ready to fly. And, we've demonstrated a large number of those things, not only through wet dress and some of the other ground tests that we've had, but we, we are still learning as we go again to get this vehicle off safely. So, our focus is on understanding the problem, developing solutions in terms of schedule, but also risk versus risk impacts. And, we'll follow up next week when we when we have those options fleshed out further. So with that, I'll pass it back to Jackie."
9. Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft on launch pad++ MUTE++
STORYLINE:
NASA has called off its second launch attempt for its new moon rocket because of yet another fuel leak.
The test flight is now off for at least a few weeks if not months.
Mission managers decided after Saturday's scrub to haul the 322-foot rocket back into the hangar for further repairs and system updates.
It's the second delay this week for the most powerful rocket ever built by NASA.
The first launch attempt on Monday was also marred by escaping hydrogen, but those leaks were elsewhere.
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