It’s starting to look like a bit of a heavy running gag, but you read the title correctly, the takeoff of NASA’s new mega-rocket for the Moon, for the long-awaited Artemis 1 test mission, cannot take place. Tuesday as announced. This time it is because of the formation of a storm, the space agency announced on Saturday.
Under the threat of tropical storm Ian, currently south of Jamaica, NASA must prepare the rocket to return to its assembly building.
The storm is expected to strengthen into a hurricane in the coming days and rise via the Gulf of Mexico towards Florida, where the Kennedy Space Center is located from where the rocket is to take off. Come on, let’s not lose hope, we waited years to see Roger Federer lift a new grand slam in Australia 2017, everything comes at the right time to who knows how to wait.