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Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
If all goes according to plan, engineers in southern Mississippi later this month will load cryogenic propellants into the core stage of a rocket NASA says will launch astronauts back to the moon, exposing its tankage and internal plumbing to extreme operating conditions hundreds of degrees below zero for the first time. The fueling test — a major milestone in its own right — is a precursor to a high-stakes eight-minute test-firing of the Space Launch System’s four shuttle-era main engines planned as soon as November.
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