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Test Firing Of Booster For NASA's New Rocket

Posted on Wednesday, March 11, 2015
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Test Firing Of Booster For NASA's New Rocket
Image credit: Orbital ATK

Uploader comment: The largest, most powerful rocket booster ever built successfully fired up Wednesday for a major-milestone ground test in preparation for future missions to help propel NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to deep space destinations, including an asteroid and Mars. The booster fired for two minutes, the same amount of time it will fire when it lifts the SLS off the launch pad, and produced about 3.6 million pounds of thrust.


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