Fire put out at South Korea's space centre during test for next generation space rocket

SEOUL (Reuters) - Firefighters have extinguished a fire at a South Korean space centre during a test of a turbopump that feeds propellants to rocket engines, South Korea's science ministry said on Wednesday.

The fire at the Naro Space Center in the southern coastal county of Goheung on Tuesday afternoon was extinguished in about 70 minutes, the ministry said.