NASA makes third attempt to partially fuel moon rocket in practice countdown
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NASA on Tuesday restarted a two-day dress rehearsal countdown for the agency's new Space Launch System moon rocket after a series of unrelated glitches, mostly involving ground systems, blocked two earlier attempts to fully fuel the huge launcher to verify its readiness for flight.
The lone rocket-related problem — trouble with a one-way helium pressurization valve in the booster's second stage — cannot be fixed at the launch pad, and engineers will be unable to pump supercold cryogenic propellants into the stage during fueling operations Thursday as originally planned.
Instead, the team will concentrate on loading the SLS core stage with 537,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen fuel and 196,000 gallons of liquid oxygen Thursday morning, testing their ability to monitor and control the flow of propellants, verifying control room commanding and validating software through two terminal countdown test runs.
Scientists say they've discovered the world's biggest coral, so huge it was mistaken for a shipwreck
Scientists say they have found the world's largest coral near the Pacific's Solomon Islands, announcing Thursday a major discovery "pulsing with life and color." The coral is so immense that researchers sailing the crystal waters of the Solomon archipelago initially thought they'd stumbled across a hulking shipwreck.
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