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Nasa delays astronaut flight around the Moon
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyp1v94j17oNasa has announced a further delay to its plans to send astronauts back to the Moon. The agency's administrator, Bill Nelson, said the second mission in the Artemis program was now due for launch in April 2026.
The plan had been to send astronauts around the moon but not land in September 2025. The date had already slipped once before, from November of this year.
That will mean that a Moon landing will not take place until at least 2027, a year later than originally planned.
The reason for the delay is to fix an issue with the capsule's heat shield, which returned from the previous test flight excessively charred and eroded, with cracks and some fragments broken off.
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