Seoul : Kwon Hyun – joon, a senior science ministry official, gives a briefing on the launch of South Korea’s first homemade space rocket, Nuri, at the ministry in Sejong, central South Korea #Gallery

Kwon Hyun-joon, a senior science ministry official, gives a briefing on the launch of South Korea’s first homemade space rocket, Nuri, at the ministry in Sejong, central South Korea, on Sept. 28, 2021. The 200-ton Nuri will lift off on Oct. 21 as scheduled at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, 473 kilometers south of Seoul, carrying a 1.5-ton mock payload . (Yonhap/END/IANS)