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Booster rocket for Nasa Moon missions set for critical test – BBC News
Engineers are preparing to test a booster rocket that will help send astronauts back to the Moon.
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Engineers are preparing to test a booster rocket that will help send Americans back to the Moon in 2024.
Two of these boosters form part of Nasa’s massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the biggest launcher built since the Saturn V in the 1960s.
The huge Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) provide most of the thrust in the first two minutes of the SLS’s ride to space.
One of the rockets will be fired while secured to the ground at a test site in Promontory, Utah.
The two-min…
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