NASA's Artemis 1 mission moon rocket launch scrubbed after delays

The scheduled launch of Artemis 1 mission moon rocket has been scrubbed Monday, NASA has announced.

The decision came shortly after a NASA official warned that the agency still had a "lot of work" to do to get to a point where it could launch the rocket following fuel leaks and a possible crack discovered during final liftoff preparations. 

The next launch attempt won't be until midday Friday at the earliest. 

NASA repeatedly stopped and started the fueling of the Space Launch System rocket with nearly 1 million gallons of super-cold hydrogen and oxygen because of a leak. The fueling already was running nearly an hour late Monday because of thunderstorms off Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.