Space X called off the launch of a privately designed American moon lander late on Tuesday night due to technical issues, delaying the latest attempt to put a U.S.-made spacecraft on the lunar surface for the first time in over 50 years.
Media members photograph a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Nova-C lander for the IM-1 mission on ... [+]
SpaceX, whose Falcon 9 rocket has been contracted to launch the lander designed by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, said it was “standing down” its launch attempt due to the temperature of the rocket’s methane fuel being “off-nominal.”
The launch of the IM-1 mission was supposed to take place an hour after midnight on Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The rocket company said it will attempt another launch at 1:05 a.m. ET on Thursday.
This is a developing story.