Artemis I Moon Mission Launch Delayed Til Friday

Today's scheduled launch of the Artemis I mission to the Moon and back was scrubbed because of engine bleeding.  The next window for launch is this Friday around noon, followed by an opportunity Saturday afternoon should that also not work out.  What, you say, there's a Moon mission?  It's been in the works for years and has already been delayed due to politics and cost overruns, but since President George W. Bush wisely set our sights once again on our nearest celestial body to visit and, this time, establish a base, this project of NASA's has become the victim of political tampering and, apparently, mismanagement.  When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, he promised, while campaigning in Florida, not to mess with Bush's space plans.  But once elected, in 2010 he dismissed a return to the Moon, explaining idiotically that "we've already been there" and essentially scrapping the project in favor of privatization of the space program. The latter in retrospect turned out to be a healthy thing with Elon Musk and his SpaceX, among other companies, stepping up to develop advanced rocketry and space technology for their own planned missions, including Mars and asteroid exploration.  President Trump reinstated Artemis and we're now on a multi-track manned space program, with one company (Boeing) focusing on the Moon and the other (SpaceX) with its sights on Mars...cool. Unfortunately, our media seems more concerned with what the Kardashians are up to than granting adequate coverage to today's planned launch as well as our space program in general.  Last Friday I quoted a noted business figure as stating, "Done is better than perfect", but made a couple of exceptions: operating rooms and nuclear facilities.  I'd like to add rocket launches to that, but the general public, used to immediate gratification in our pushbutton digitalized modern world, tends to regard delays like this as imperfection instead of a necessary part of the process.  Well, I'm looking forward to seeing whether the launch takes place this Friday...at least the Weather Channel is giving it the coverage it merits.  With mannequins instead of live humans aboard, the rocket, launched from Cape Canaveral, will send the Orion spacecraft to the Moon, where it will orbit and return after six weeks.  Ordinarily, my politics tend to side with the Democrats, but regarding our space program the Republicans seem to be the driving force toward progress in recent years, a turnaround from when President Nixon axed the final planned Apollo Moon missions that President Kennedy had envisioned.  Frankly though, I'd just as soon everybody from both parties be on the same page and support our space efforts, but that's just fantasy thinking, I guess.  Should this Artemis I mission be successful, they're planning to send a manned crew in 2024 with Artemis II, and then try landing on the Moon in 2025...assuming the politicians don't interfere, that is...