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To: BBell

When fully developed, the heavy-lift version of the spacecraft will be the largest, most powerful rocket ever built.

That got my attention.

Is America’s space program rebuilding?


2 posted on 07/18/2015 5:09:42 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Been in the works for some time. Part of GWB’s mission to Mars that was renamed instead of cut, IIRC.


3 posted on 07/18/2015 5:12:37 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Slowly. There is a lot going on at Stennis.


4 posted on 07/18/2015 5:15:15 PM PDT by BBell
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

More than the Saturn Vs, five F1 engines that produced a combined Seven Million pounds of thrust?


6 posted on 07/18/2015 5:19:10 PM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

It will be used to launch the Orion capsule on at least the EM1 and EM2 missions.


7 posted on 07/18/2015 5:19:57 PM PDT by Elderberry
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

That got my attention.

Is America’s space program rebuilding?

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These are leftover Shuttle engines. They’ve been improved some, but it’s 1970’s technology.


11 posted on 07/18/2015 5:34:49 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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