Third delay in the past month for test flight as technical issues and weather hamper US effort to return to the moon after five decades.

Nasa is skipping Tuesday’s launch attempt of its new moon rocket over concerns about a tropical storm headed to Florida that could become a major hurricane.

It’s the third delay in the past month for the lunar-orbiting test flight featuring mannequins but no astronauts, a follow-up to Nasa’s Apollo moon-landing program of a half-century ago.

Artemis I, the uncrewed test flight, signals a major turning point for Nasa’s post-Apollo human spaceflight program, after decades focused on low-Earth orbit with space shuttles and the International Space Station.