South Korea launches first homegrown space rocket

South Korea launched its first domestically developed space rocket on Thursday, but President Moon Jae In said a dummy satellite separated from the rocket did not go into orbit as planned.The 200-ton liquid fuel rocket Nuri lifted off from the Naro Space Center in Goheung, a county on the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula, at 5 p.m.A 1.5-ton dummy satellite was later separated to be sent into orbit. If it had succeeded, South Korea would have become the seventh country in the world with the ability to put a satellite weighing 1 ton or heavier into orbit."Enabling the dummy satellite to s…READ FULL ARTICLE