Close encounters of the rocket kind

• Autores: Mika McKinnon
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3081, 2016, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • They call it the most powerful rocket ever built. NASA's Space Launch System is designed to carry astronauts on deep space missions, and is about to undergo its final ground test at a facility belonging to the rocket's manufacturer, Orbital ATK. Here, McKinnon shares his close encounters of the rocket kind. Although the SLS will be the largest rocket the world has ever known, it will be some time before it claims that crown. The rocket he sees goes off is more powerful than the space shuttle booster it's based on, but its first test flight with an empty Orion crew capsule in 2018 will have only half the lifting power of the retired Saturn V rockets that sent astronauts to the moon.