Wind halts Nasa moon probe launch

High wind has forced the postponement of the launch of Nasa’s newest moon spacecraft.

An unmanned rocket was supposed to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, today with the twin probes, but the countdown was halted because of gusty wind in the flight path.

Nasa said it will try again tomorrow, despite another poor weather forecast. The space agency has just two single-second launch windows each day.

The Grail mission is the first in more than 50 years of lunar exploration that is dedicated to measuring the moon’s gravity.