SLS will be Most Powerful Rocket in History
NASA has talked about many its upcoming projects. One of them is to develop a next-generation rocket allowing them to go where no human has ever gone earlier like asteroid, Mars and beyond.
Two other organizations, SpaceX and the European Space Agency are also developing rockets having such capabilities. But it is being said NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) will be the most powerful rocket ever made and the best part is it has been fully funded till its completion.
NASA shared about the SLS that it will stand 322 feet tall. It will produce 12% more thrust than NASA's Saturn V rocket and will take four astronauts at one go to deep-space on board NASA's Orion spacecraft.
Currently, NASA has been working on the details of the project. The rocket will be having two boosters and each of them will be around 1.3 million pounds in weight.
On June 9, NASA's Marshall Spaceflight Center has released a video showing how the SLS will look like when it will blast off for the first time. NASA said that the first un-crew test flight of the rocket has been scheduled to take place by November 2018.
With the head under the YouTube video saying, 'Feel the Power of America's Next Great Rocket', people can watch the promo video. As per NASA, "Space Launch System (SLS) will be the world's most powerful rocket ever built for deep space missions, including to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars". The SLS has been designed to be flexible and evolvable to meet the needs of crew and cargo.