NASA's Artemis I mission launch was scrubbed due to fuel leaks after a highly-anticipated flight test around the moon from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Monday. The next launch attempt will not take place until Friday at the earliest.

It was planned to launch at 8:33 am ET, but with a nearly-hour delay from weather, a feared crack that turned out to be a build-up of frost, hydrogen leaks were found during pre-launch preparations.

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.

Then a second apparent hydrogen leak turned up in a valve that had caused trouble in June but that NASA thought it had fixed, officials said.

The Artemis I is the first integrated test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and the ground systems from the space centre.

The complex mission will last about six weeks as it travels about 40,000 miles beyond the Moon and back to Earth.

Artemis missions aim to return astronauts to the moon by 2024, more than half a century since the last lunar walk.

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