NASA Rocket Delayed. The first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule is being delayed due to production glitches, agency officials told reporters May 12. Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), which had been planned for November 2018, will now take place sometime in 2019, according to Robert Lightfoot, NASA’s acting administrator, and William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for human exploration and operations. Gerstenmaier said that ramping up the industrial base to build SLS and Orion has proven more…
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