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Mike Wehner
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- NASA's long-awaited Space Launch System (SLS) was tested in Mississippi this past weekend.
- The core stage of the rocket, which is the part that will provide the oomph to send missions into space, was fired up for a planned 8-minute test.
- Unfortunately, the stage shut down after just one minute, and NASA says there was a serious issue with one of the engines.
NASA's Space Launch System is the space agency's big bet on future missions to the Moon, Mars, and even beyond. The SLS will be a large and complex rocket system, but at the moment it's well behind schedule and there has been no shortage of high-profile setbacks, with many of those delays coming from manufacturer Boeing.
Now, during one of its first big milestone moments, a rocket test of the core stage ended abruptly due to the triggering of a failure indicator. NASA and Boeing are both investigating the issue, but after literally years of setbacks for the SLS, watching it fizzle out after just a minute into its planned eight-minute test firing was a real bummer.
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