When fully developed, the heavy-lift version of the spacecraft will be the largest, most powerful rocket ever built.
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That got my attention.
Is America’s space program rebuilding?
Been in the works for some time. Part of GWB’s mission to Mars that was renamed instead of cut, IIRC.
Slowly. There is a lot going on at Stennis.
More than the Saturn Vs, five F1 engines that produced a combined Seven Million pounds of thrust?
It will be used to launch the Orion capsule on at least the EM1 and EM2 missions.
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.