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Aug 29

WATCH: NASA officials give briefing on postponement of new Artemis moon rocket launch

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

NASA called off the launch of its mighty new moon rocket on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard Monday after a last-minute cascade of problems culminating in unexplained trouble related to an engine.

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Aug 20

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Proposed rocket launch site in Michigan fuels community concerns

By Megan Thompson

An aerospace group in Michigan wants to build the first rocket launch sites in the Midwest, including a spaceport right along Lake Superior. But many locals are fighting to keep the plan from taking off, citing concerns about environmental impacts.

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Jun 28

NASA hopes New Zealand rocket launch will pave the way for moon landing

By Nick Perry, Associated Press

ASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface. So it is sending up a test satellite from New Zealand.

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Apr 05

NASA’s moon rocket test delayed again after technical problems

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

NASA's dress rehearsal for its mega moon rocket has been postponed twice now by technical problems that stalled a fueling test.

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Dec 30

Amid nuclear talks, Iran says it launched a rocket into space

By Nasser Karimi, Isabel Debre, Associated Press

Iranian state television says Tehran has launched a rocket with a satellite carrier bearing three devices into space, though it's unclear if any object entered orbit.

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Jan 19

Halted rocket test could stall NASA moon shot, redo possible

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

The space agency had aimed to launch its new rocket and an empty Orion capsule by the end of the year, with the capsule flying past the moon and back.

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Dec 01

China spacecraft lands on moon to bring rocks back to Earth

By Joe McDonald, Associated Press

A Chinese spacecraft landed on the moon Tuesday to bring back lunar rocks to Earth for the first time since the 1970s, the government announced.

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Nov 23

China launches mission to bring back material from moon surface

By Sam McNeil, Associated Press

If successful, it would be a major advance for China's space program, and some experts say it could pave the way for bringing samples back from Mars or even a crewed lunar mission.

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Apr 16

WATCH LIVE: TESS, NASA’s new exoplanet hunter, launches on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

By Jason Steffen, The Conversation

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will monitor more than 200,000 stars to discover thousands of exoplanets, ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants.

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