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Nasa calls off moon launch for second time after hydrogen leak

Technical problems have plagued rocket which the US hopes will take astronauts back to the moon in 2025

Technical problems with fuelling its giant new moon rocket forced Nasa to call off its second attempt at a launch in less than a week.

The US space agency’s engineers struggled for more than three hours on Saturday to contain a leak in a hydrogen line being used to fill one of the tanks on the core part of the rocket, but abandoned the effort more than two hours before the scheduled blast-off.

The leak was the latest in a string of technical glitches that have delayed the first launch of the SLS rocket, which the US hopes to use to take astronauts back to the moon in 2025.

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