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  NASA's moon rocket test hit by hydrogen leak as crew awaits crucial countdown for Artemis launch

  World | February 03, 2026 6:41 IST

  NASA's crucial pre-launch fueling test for its new moon rocket was interrupted by a hydrogen leak, forcing engineers to pause operations and attempt quick fixes. The outcome will decide whether the Artemis crew can begin their lunar fly-around mission this month.

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  NASA's Artemis Moon rocket passes key test

  Science | March 19, 2021 12:41 IST

  NASA has completed a crucial hot fire test of the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket which is designed to power future Moon missions under the agency's Artemis programme.

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  SpaceX delays launch debut of upgraded Falcon rocket

  World | May 11, 2018 8:13 IST

  This latest version of the Falcon 9 was supposed to blast off on Thursday from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, carrying Bangladesh's first satellite, which would bring the internet to all corners of the country.

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  NASA human spacecraft set for December flight

  World | September 12, 2014 11:30 IST

  Washington: NASA's Orion spacecraft - built to take humans farther than they have ever gone before - is now ready for fueling.The Orion crew module, stacked atop its service module, moved out of the Neil

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  NASA's Mars spacecraft gears up for maiden test flight

  World | June 13, 2014 12:14 IST

  Washington: With just six months until its first scheduled trip to space in December this year, engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center have begun the final assembly of Orion spacecraft that could take man to

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  Nasa deliberately kept Kalpana Chawla, other astronauts in dark about impending death

  World | February 02, 2013 12:29 IST

  London, Feb 2: A NASA employee has revealed how Mission Control decided 10 years ago not to reveal to Kalpana Chawla and six other astronauts that they were doomed to die on re-entry of the