NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket, bedeviled by fuel leaks, unrelated glitches and finally by an approaching hurricane, headed back out to its launch pad late Thursday for another attempt to get the Artemis program's unpiloted and oft-delayed maiden flight underway. NASA's massive crawler-transporter, carrying the towering SLS rocket and its mobile launch platform, began easing its way out of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at 11:17 p.m. EDT. Once in place at the seaside firing stand, engineers will ready the booster for a middle-of-the-night launch attempt at 12:07 a.m. on November 14. Weather permitting, that is. A "non-tropical low pressure system" in the Caribbean could bring heavy rain and winds gusting up to 40 knots to the Kennedy Space Center next week, slowing launch processing. But mission managers said predicted worst-case conditions are well within the SLS rocket's ability to withstand them at the pad and the team has a day of contingency time left in the schedule
