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Inside the Rocket Engine Powering the Future of Space Exploration

08-08-2014 02:24AM

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There’s a big misconception these days that NASA isn’t doing anything but sending astronauts up to the International Space Station on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. That’s far from the truth. There are a handful of amazing planetary missions underway, and on the manned side of things the agency is pressing forward with its Space Launch System, the next heavy lift rocket that will be able to send men and machines beyond Earth orbit to the giant planets of our Solar System.

Powering the core stage of this big new rocket is the RS-25 engine. It’s an engine NASA debuted in the early 1980s with the space shuttle, but the SLS version is updated and more powerful, and it’s currently in testing leading up the first SLS launch currently scheduled for 2017. So how exactly does the rocket engine powering the future of space exploration work?

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/inside-the-rocket-engine-powering-the-future-of-space-exploration

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