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NASA’s new rocket would be the most powerful ever. But it’s the software that has some officials worried. – The Washington Post
As NASA moves towards the SLS’s first flight, putting the Orion spacecraft in orbit around the moon, there are concerns not with the rocket’s engines but rather…
NASAs newest moon rocket is powered not only by four RS-25 engines that, combined, unleash 2 million pounds of thrust, but by two solid fuel side boosters that burn six tons of propellant a second at such enormous temperatures that during a recent test fire in the Utah desert, the flames turned sand to glass.
When it launches, NASAs Space Launch System rocket, a towering 322-foot behemoth taller than the Statue of Liberty would be the most powerful rocket ever flown, eclipsing both the Saturn V…
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