NASA launched the second mission of its Artemis program, originally scheduled for February, on Wednesday.

During a wet dress rehearsal of the rocket-towering system at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Feb. 8, NASA said it had encountered weather-related delays and found a leak in the hydrogen tanks. 

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