On Wednesday, NASA announced a new date, November 14, to try to launch its mega rocket to the moon as part of the Artemis 1 mission, AFP reported.

Previously scheduled releases in late August and early September were canceled at the last minute due to technical issues.

Then, in late September, the SLS rocket, the most powerful rocket ever built by the US space agency, was returned to a hangar at the Kennedy Space Center to protect it from Hurricane Ian, which devastated parts of Florida.

A new 69-minute launch window will open on the night of November 13-14 at 04:07 GMT, NASA said.

Two backup dates were also set: November 16 and 19.

The SLS rocket has been under development for more than a decade and has never flown.

Artemis is NASA’s new flagship program that aims to return humans to the moon and send the first woman and the first black person there.

50 years after the last Apollo mission, there will be no astronaut aboard the Artemis 1 mission

For this first mission, Orion will venture 40,000 miles beyond the Moon, farther than any other crewed spacecraft to date.

The main goal is to test his heat shield, the largest ever created. When returning to the Earth’s atmosphere, it will have to withstand a speed of 40,000 km/h and a temperature that is half the temperature on the surface of the Sun.