If it all goes wrong, British kids of the '80s might remember an alternative NASA's monster Moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), has trundled out to the launch pad - though the upper stage and Orion spacecraft look uncannily like a prop from a 1980s British children's television show....

Sending humans around the Moon in February, er, March - now April 2026, maybe The quest to return to the Moon has hit another snag. NASA is delaying Artemis II again, as interrupted helium flow to the rocket's upper stage forces a rollback to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and wipes out the March launch window....