By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Rocket firm Astra Space’s mission to send tiny storm-monitoring NASA satellites to orbit on Sunday failed after a second-stage booster engine shut down early in space. The failure occurred roughly 10 minutes after a successful liftoff of Astra’s Rocket 3.3 at 1:43 p.m. ET (1743 GMT) from a launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. “We had a nominal first-stage flight. However, the upper-stage engine did shutdown early and we did not deliver our payloads to orbit,” said Astra’s livestream commentator Amanda Durk Frye. The rocket was c…