NASA: Intense work under way on rocket for future moonshots

  NEW ORLEANS --- Crews are working around the clock at a NASA rocket factory, intent on meeting a new fall 2020 deadline to test launch a mega-rocket designed to propel astronauts to the moon and beyond, a space agency official said Friday.   "I came out here in the middle of the night ... talking to people who were working on the engine section, working hard through the night," NASA Deputy Administrator James Morhard said on a press tour at New Orleans' Michoud Assembly Center .   He said the core rocket assembly __ or Space Launch System __ is 80 percent complete, with one of five sections still under assembly.   If all goes well, the often...

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