Technical issues scuttle Saturday's second launch attempt for moon mission

When technical issues delayed the first launch attempt on Monday, Aug. 29

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at Cape Canaveral in Florida it seemed like Americans were going to be deprived

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of seeing something that hasn't happened since 1968

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A human mission send off for NASA's moon program.

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Fortunately though by early afternoon they had resolved these problems

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and technicians were able successfully put together another perfect go ahead

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When the crewless Orion capsule was scheduled to launch on Saturday afternoon

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it experienced a delay of about an hour as engineers worked quickly and efficiently

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with their tools in order fix what they believed were leaks from hydrogen fuels

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NASA officials scrubbed the Saturday liftoff at about 11:20 a.m. EDT

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