Fwd: NASA is Building a Huge Rocket — But to Where?

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From: "Robert Hooi" <rwlh21@sbcglobal.net>
Date: March 19, 2015 at 11:44:20 AM CDT
To: "Bobby G Martin" <bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: NASA is Building a Huge Rocket — But to Where?
Reply-To: "Robert Hooi" <rwlh21@sbcglobal.net>

Payload is immaterial when there isn't even have a mission! A vehicle to go nowhere.

 

 

From: Bobby G Martin

Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 8:14 AM

To: Robert Hooi

Subject: Re: NASA is Building a Huge Rocket — But to Where?

 

They make big deal about lifting capability, but useful payload?  Laughable IMO.

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On Mar 18, 2015, at 10:52 PM, Robert Hooi <rwlh21@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

 

 

 

NASA is Building a Huge Rocket — But to Where?

by Barry Ritholtz - March 18th, 2015, 5:30pm

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Source: Bloomberg

 

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Building America's Next Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

 

Building America's Next Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle

NASA's Space Launch System is an advanced, heavy-lift launch vehicle which will provide an entirely new capability for science and human exploration beyond Earth's orbit. The Space Launch System will give the nation a safe, afford-able and sustainable means of reaching beyond our current limits and open new doors of discovery from the unique vantage point of space. The Space Launch System, or SLS, will carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, as well as important cargo, equipment and science experi-ments, to deep space. The Orion spacecraft will carry up to four astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on long-duration, deep space missions and include both crew and service modules and a launch abort system to significantly increase crew safety. As NASA's commercial partners create an American supply line to the International Space Station, SLS will provide the transportation needed for NASA to reach further into our solar system. However, if needed, SLS will support backup trans-portation to the International Space Station.SLS will be the most powerful rocket in history and is designed to be flexible and evolvable, to meet a variety of crew and cargo mission needs.

The Power to Explore BeyondEarth's Orbit

The SLS will be NASA's first exploration-class vehi-cle since the Saturn V took American astronauts to the moon over 40 years ago. With its superior lift capability, the SLS will expand our reach in the solar system, allowing astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft to explore multiple, deep-space desti-nations including near-Earth asteroids, Lagrange points, the moon and ultimately Mars. The SLS heavy-lift launch vehicle is essential to NASA's deep-space exploration endeavors. The system will be flexible and include multiple launch vehicle configurations. The SLS will carry crew, cargo and science missions to deep space.

Above: Artist rendering of the SLS 70-t configuration launch. Below: SLS Program Manager Todd May shares progress on the core stage with NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Lori Garver, RS-25 engines in the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility, solid rocket motor test firing, J-2X test firing