NASA has postponed for at least 4 days the launch of its gigantic next-generation rocketship on a long-awaited debut take a look at flight,
a deliberate six-week uncrewed voyage round the moon and again 50 years after Apollo's closing lunar mission.
The countdown clock was once halted about forty minutes earlier than the centered launch time of 8.33am EDT (1.33 GMT),
as the 32-storey-tall, two-stage Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its Orion crew tablet awaited liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The US house corporation mentioned a trouble detected on one of the rocket's fundamental engines,
after launch groups had begun filling the rocket's core gasoline tanks with super-cooled liquid oxygen and hydrogen propellants.
NASA did no longer provide a new launch date however stated its first accessible backup launch possibility was once set for Friday, two September.
Tens of hundreds of humans - consisting of US Vice President Kamala Harris -
had gathered alongside the seaside close to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to watch the launch.