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NASA engineers are getting ready to embark on a crucial series of ground tests at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the highly anticipated Artemis II moon mission.

Elon Musk's SpaceX added a vent between the Starship rocket and its booster and installed a giant "upside-down shower head" on the launchpad.

An old space shuttle engine that once visited the Hubble Space Telescope was just mounted on the SLS rocket that will launch the Artemis 2 moon mission next year.

SpaceX fired one of its Raptor engines last month to test its ability to land the companys giant Starship vehicle on the moon in cold conditions.

SpaceX fired one of its Raptor engines last month to test its ability to land the company's Starship vehicle on the moon in cold conditions, which it will have to do on the Artemis 3 mission.

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launch vehicle at Launch 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

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ISRO's back-to-back Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya L1 missions might mislead you into thinking that space is easy. That is far from the truth. Both NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX suffered setbacks this week due to government agencies.

The FAA has closed its investigation int SpaceX's ill-fated April Starship launch, but that doesn't mean the company will be flying again any time soon.