Media and social media followers are invited to watch as NASA tests the largest, most powerful booster ever built March 11 at ATK Aerospace System's test facility in Promontory, Utah. The booster will power NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), which will be used to help send humans to deep space destinations including an asteroid and Mars.
The two-minute, full-duration static test is a significant milestone in the development of the SLS and comes after years of development to qualify the booster design performance at the highest end of the booster’s accepted temperature range. Once this test and a second, low-temperature test planned for early 2016, are complete, the hardware will be ready to help send the rocket, with NASA’s Orion spacecraft atop it, on its first flight test.
NASA has further details on this test in a press release as well as on the SLS itself.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 31 2015, @09:26AM
No nip slips, no tip slips. Do Not Like.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 31 2015, @09:51AM
Defund NASA immediately. More tax cuts for campaign contributors.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 31 2015, @09:44PM
to be fair, the democraps are just as corrupt. only difference is instead of cutting taxes for the rich they prefer to bankrupt the country for future generations
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 31 2015, @10:00AM
Space! FUCK YEAH! Suck my booster cock nut sack, Zorblax!
(Score: 2) by SlimmPickens on Saturday January 31 2015, @10:46AM
Here is the similar Ares booster [youtube.com] being tested, it's a five segment shuttle derived solid rocket.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 31 2015, @12:02PM
Thou are notified that thy kind hath infiltrated the galaxy too far already. Thou art directed to return to thine own solar system immediately. Go back whence thou camest. Stay where thou art!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 31 2015, @09:46PM
why the fuck does an alien sound like fucking shakespeare?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 31 2015, @10:41PM
You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 31 2015, @07:06PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 31 2015, @09:49PM
i'm warming up to spacex, but the russians have been doing this shit for decades... cheaper and more reliably than nasa or any us corporation could ever achieve
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Sunday February 01 2015, @03:44PM
cheaper and more reliably than nasa or any us corporation could ever achieve
Falcon 9 is currently launching for less than Soyuz per kg of payload.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday February 01 2015, @03:27AM
So, do NASA have anything cool that they will launch with this system? like a Mars expedition? Moon mining?