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Miami (USA), 30 Jul (EFE/EPA), (Camera: Cristóbal Herrera).- The new Mars rover, also known as Perseverance, took off Thursday from Cape Canaveral in Florida towards Mars with the mission of finding microscopic life either present or past on the planet's surface.FOOTAGE OF THE LAUNCH AT CAPE CANAVERAL
NASA ignites an RS-25 engine like those that will power the rocket that could one day launch astronauts to Mars. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
US NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Russian Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, members of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 70-71 main crew, bid farewell to their relatives and visitors gathered ahead of the launch from the Russian leased Baikonur facility, in Kazakhstan. IMAGES
Le rover Persévérance de la NASA découvre les composants de la vie sur Mars
NASA announces that a third attempt to launch its new lunar rocket would not occur in the coming days, after a fuel leak caused a second launch attempt to be halted. The current launch period for the Artemis 1 mission "ends on Tuesday. We will not be launching in this launch period," says Jim Free, associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development at NASA. SOUNDBITE
NASA scraps its launch of a 30-story rocket due to orbit the Moon, citing a fuel leak in delaying the mission for a second time. The leak occurred as liquid hydrogen was being pumped into the rocket. No new date for another try was immediately announced. IMAGES