https://www.nasa.gov/content/live-coverage-of-nasas-artemis-i-mission-to-the-moon
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-t-38s-soar-over-artemis-i
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Appears there is some sort of fuel leak that could delay lift off today.
Today’s launch has been scrubbed.
NASA will target Saturday, Sept. 3 at 2:17 p.m.
7.15 UK
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@Cinderella , So it looks like its on again cinders?
Seems it wasnt a mechanical fault, but a fault in proceedure or summat ?
Lets hope all goes well this time !! 
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This popped up in my inbox. It is NASA explaining the Artemis project and what should happen in the launch.
Well, I thought it was interesting anyway. This is out of date but interesting too.
https://www.space.com/artemis-1-moon-mission-nasa-zero-hour-preview
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NASA needs this to be a successful mission, Shaun the sheep getting impatient.
Shaun the Sheep will become an astronaut when the Artemis I spacecraft finally blasts into space, with its delayed launch currently planned for Saturday.
The woolly pioneer will boldly go where no sheep has gone before as he has been assigned a seat on the unmanned mission to the Moon - a precursor for missions taking humans to the lunar surface after an absence of more than 50 years.
He’ll take his giant leap for lamb-kind after experiencing some of the same ‘training’ as real human astronauts, including being handed an astronaut’s toolbox of knowledge for the first Artemis mission, including life and physical sciences in ‘weightless’ conditions, engineering and medical skills, as well as orbital mechanics and survival training.
He even got exclusive access to the Large Diameter Centrifuge based at ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. This spinning device is devoted to research that gives scientists access to high acceleration levels for minutes, days or even weeks on end.
Shaun will be joined on Artemis I by Helga and Zohar, two plastic bodies filled with over 5,600 sensors each to measure the radiation load during their trip around the Moon.
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Talented sheep! Will (s)he also be used to test types of make up and the hazards of tobacco smoking afterwards? Scruples are scruples!
The furore if they sent a live animal would be intense.
No go.
• Monday at 5:12 p.m. EDT (2112 GMT) with a 90-minute window
• Tuesday at 6:57 p.m. EDT (2257 GMT) with a 24-minute window
If the Artemis 1 mission can’t get off the ground by Tuesday, the Space Launch System moon rocket will have to roll back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for re-testing of its flight termination system, forcing a weeks-long delay.
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@Cinderella , Shame, its off again !
Just been listening to a NASA guy explaining why,it seems to be a problem
with the flexible fuel filling pipe failing to seal fully when filling the liquid
hydrogen tank on the rocket ?
Just as well they noticed it, remember the zeppelin accidents !!
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Break an egg into it. That’ll seal it.
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That was sabotage? Hindenburg.
Wasn’t that sabotage?
Think you’re pointing the finger at the wrong poster.
In any case, I watched Zeppelin on TV a couple of weeks ago, and it was Michael York who was to blame.
sorry.
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deleted. Taking it off topic. Sorry.
@Cinderella , The old film l saw, put itndownbto static electricity in
the envelope of the airship which discharged when mooring to the mooring
mast! This discharge could be clearly seen in the film !!( No videos then!)
I have no knowledge of any sabotage ?? 
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