NASA’s Boeing Moon Rocket Cuts Short During Test

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By NTD Newsroom
January 18, 2021NTD News Today
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NASA’s newest deep space rocket built by Boeing might have to stay grounded a little while longer. During an engine test on Saturday, all four of the Space Launch System’s engines were ignited together for the first time, but that only lasted over a minute, well below the roughly eight-minute target for the test designed to simulate the internal conditions of a real liftoff.

 

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