STORY: At the Cape Canaveral spaceport in the USA, good weather conditions are emerging for the launch of the new moon rocket planned for Saturday. There is a 70 percent chance of favorable meteorological conditions during the two-hour liftoff window, the U.S. Space Department said. According to previous plans, the engines of the heavy-duty rocket “Space Launch System” are to be ignited at 8:17 p.m. Central European Time. The impending launch is also attracting many onlookers: “You know, I’ve been a space fan since I was a little kid, I love NASA and everything space related. And this is the first opportunity I’ve ever had had to see a launch. At the last minute we decided to come here last night. We bought tickets and flew down.” ” My story goes back to 1969, I was born five days before the moon landing. In England we were known as space babies. So I was born on July 15th and the landing happened on July 20th. I’ve been fascinated by it ever since space program.” Last Monday, the countdown was stopped around 40 minutes before the scheduled start. Nasa pointed to problems with one of the main engines. NASA said technicians repaired a leaking fuel line that contributed to the aborted launch. 50 years after the last Apollo mission, the new crew spaceship Orion is to be tested with an unmanned flight as part of the “Artemis I” mission. Orion’s service and drive module, the so-called “European Service Module”, was mainly built in Germany and is therefore called “Bremen”. After a successful launch, the Orion capsule is expected to leave Earth orbit around 90 minutes later. After that, Orion is supposed to fly up to almost 100 kilometers from the moon’s surface and splash down in the Pacific on its return. If the project succeeds, astronauts should fly around the moon again for the first time in 2024 on the follow-up mission “Artemis II”. At the earliest, people should land on the moon again with “Artemis III” in 2025.