Moon river: Rocket part ferried on the mighty Mississippi near New Orleans
By STACEY PLAISANCE, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With a brass band playing and a parade of workers sporting Mardi Gras beads, a huge component of a new rocket system was wheeled slowly from a New Orleans spacecraft factory on Wednesday to a barge that will float it up the Mississippi River for testing. The recently completed "core stage" of NASA's Space Launch System, which dwarfed the hundreds