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SLS: Nasa 'megarocket' assembly begins in Florida:
Nasa has started assembling the first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on a launch platform ahead of its maiden flight next year.
The SLS is the giant rocket that will send US astronauts back to the Moon this decade - with the first crewed landing targeted for 2024.
Engineers in Florida have begun stacking the segments that make up the vehicle's two solid rocket boosters.
[...] Teams at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida lowered the first of 10 booster segments into place on a structure known as the mobile launcher on 21 November. The process is taking place inside the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy.
The boosters will burn six tonnes of solid, aluminium-based propellant each second when the SLS launches. They provide 75% of the vehicle's thrust at lift-off.
The mobile launcher they're being stacked on is a 115m (380ft) -tall structure that's used to process and assemble the SLS before moving it to the launch pad.
It's a huge symbolic step, not only for the SLS - which has been under development for a decade - but also Nasa's plan to send the next man and the first woman to the lunar surface by 2024, known as Artemis.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by legont on Monday November 30 2020, @01:33PM (6 children)
The Bitch makes perfect candidate for the Moon, but I am all right with her riding Musk to Mars as well.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday November 30 2020, @02:21PM (5 children)
I don't follow, what is your point?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 30 2020, @03:02PM (1 child)
It's either a Melania or a Hilary joke. Bitch, you see? That was the clue. Very clever.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday November 30 2020, @03:32PM
It was probably a reference to Artemis [wikipedia.org], the Moon goddess.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 30 2020, @04:53PM (2 children)
Legont is frustrated. As you *should* know, the difference between a "bitch" and a "slut" is that that a slut will fuck anyone and a bitch will fuck anyone *but you*.
Does that clear things up for you?
(Score: 2) by legont on Monday November 30 2020, @05:52PM (1 child)
That's exactly what I wanted to say. She will not fuck me - no way - I am prepared. However, she will fuck up you - all of you - because your brain was melted by propaganda.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2020, @01:43AM
Nevada has legal prostitution, why don't you avail yourself of such services instead of lashing out at the world?