Jim Bridenstine

NASA conducted a test firing of the engines for its giant Space Launch System (SLS) lunar rocket on Jan. 16 but they shut down earlier than planned, the space agency said.

The "hot-fire" test at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi was supposed to last a little over eight minutes - the time the engines would burn in flight - but they shut down just over a minute into the burn.

Greece's recently established space agency has signed a cooperation agreement with NASA on the sidelines of the annual Space Symposium, taking place in Colorado Springs, in the United States, running April 8-11.

American Vice President Mike Pens challenged NASA to send people to the Moon by 2024. Jim Bridenstine, NASA Administrator, accepted the challenge and announced that the deadline was enough, quoted by Vesti.bg

The US space agency plans to stay there, reported NOVA TV. 

NASA is speeding up its plans to return to the Moon, and this time, the US space agency says it will stay there.

Jim Bridenstine, NASA Administrator, said the agency plans to speed up plans backed by President Donald Trump to return to the Moon using private companies.