Until now, history’s most powerful rocket was the Apollo program’s Saturn 5. But when NASA’s new Space Launch System thunders off the pad, six engines will generate 8.8 million lbs (4 million kgs) of power
ntil now, history’s most powerful rocket was the Apollo program’s Saturn 5, which put out a prodigious 7.5 million lbs of thrust when its engines were lit. But when NASA’s new thunders off the pad, six engines will generate 8.8 million lbs of power.
The more powerful launch system is necessary for the larger spacecraft and heavier payloads that will be required for human exploration of the moon and Mars, as well as robotic missions to Saturn and Jupiter. In development since 2004, the SLS twice this summer
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