[BenLurkin]

Artist concept of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) 70-metric-ton configuration launching to space. SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built for deep space missions, including to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars.
Credit: NASA/MSFC

[OftheOhio]

Good news for a change, gives me hope America has still got it. Let me volunteer to be the first man on Mars, send me now, lol.

[alpo]

What happened to the Nova?

That was the next size after the Saturn.

[Dagnabitt]

This thing will send an unmanned capsule around the moon in 2018.

That's a half century after we first sent a Manned capsule around (lunar orbit) the moon in 1968.

[reefdiver]

I hope we’re around in 2018, but it sure doesn’t seem like we will make it

[fifedom]

Anything NASA touches costs 100 times more than it should and it takes 10 years longer than it should. Even though they are just government contractors now, the private companies doing rocket development are the only hope for fulfilling humanity’s destiny to live among the stars.

There are plenty of opportunities for making profits in space such as re-fueling communications satellites that otherwise are fully functional to mining asteroids. But I am afraid that once private companies pursue these NASA will try to interject itself and take its cut of the profits.

[doorgunner69]

Hopefully this will not cut into the Muslim outreach activities very much.

Diverting NASA funds for that and other of Obunga's community organizing led to my bailing out of the workforce at an early age.

I am sure no democrats missed my federal income tax propping up their house of cards.

[Doug Loss]

This thing will never be a success (and may never fly at all):

http://spaceref.com/sls/using-jedi-mind-tricks-to-sell-nasas-next-big-rocket.html