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Liputan6.com, Washington – NASA’s new massive rocket begins its first trip to the launch pad on Thursday 17 March ahead of a series of tests to launch to Month this summer. The plane left the Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building at approximately 5:47 p.m. Eastern Time (04:47 BST) and began an 11-hour crawler-transporter journey to Launch Complex 39B, 6.5 km away.
Reported Channel News AsiaFriday (18/3/2022), around 10,000 people had gathered to watch the event.
With the Orion crew capsule mounted on top, Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 stands 98m tall – taller than the Statue of Liberty, but slightly smaller than the 110.6m Saturn V rocket that powered the Apollo missions to the Moon.
Nonetheless, it will deliver a maximum thrust of 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons), 15 percent more than the Saturn V, meaning rocket it is expected to be the most powerful rocket in the world by the time it enters service.
“Ladies and gentlemen, the most powerful rocket the world has ever seen is here!” administrator NASA Bill Nelson told the audience.
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