Standing 17 stories tall, twin booster rockets are ready for a launch beyond the moon. It's one of the many steps forward despite large delays on NASA's slowly developing mega-rocket. The newly finished booster rockets in NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building stand roughly 170-feet tall and are ready to take their places on the sides of NASA’s new super-rocket, the SLS. The boosters are assembled one segment at a time with the segments stacked like building blocks. They are the biggest, most powerful booster rockets ever. "You know, trying to go to the moon is a much harder job than going to the space station. So we produce a lot more thrust than we did under shuttle," SLS boosters manager Bruce Tiller said.The boosters now await the core stage, or main part of the SLS, which is getting finishing touches in Mississippi. The climax of the stage’s development will be a full-up test-firing while bolted to the ground. It’ll be a repeat of a test-firing that was cut short in January. It’s now set for late next week. Delays are nothing new, the rocket was scheduled to be launched in 2017. When it does launch, it’ll send an unoccupied spaceship beyond the moon and back in preparation for an astronaut landing on the moon sometime after 2024. The first launch will generate more power than the legendary Saturn-5 and should be a mega-event for spectators.
Standing 17 stories tall, twin booster rockets are ready for a launch beyond the moon.
It's one of the many steps forward despite large delays on NASA's slowly developing mega-rocket.
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The newly finished booster rockets in NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building stand roughly 170-feet tall and are ready to take their places on the sides of NASA’s new super-rocket, the SLS.
The boosters are assembled one segment at a time with the segments stacked like building blocks. They are the biggest, most powerful booster rockets ever.
"You know, trying to go to the moon is a much harder job than going to the space station. So we produce a lot more thrust than we did under shuttle," SLS boosters manager Bruce Tiller said.
The boosters now await the core stage, or main part of the SLS, which is getting finishing touches in Mississippi.
The climax of the stage’s development will be a full-up test-firing while bolted to the ground.
It’ll be a repeat of a test-firing that was cut short in January. It’s now set for late next week. Delays are nothing new, the rocket was scheduled to be launched in 2017. When it does launch, it’ll send an unoccupied spaceship beyond the moon and back in preparation for an astronaut landing on the moon sometime after 2024.
The first launch will generate more power than the legendary Saturn-5 and should be a mega-event for spectators.
March 12, 2021 at 06:46AM
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