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Blueprint of a Russian Soyuz rocket. Click here to view large size.

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Does SLS Have a Future?

At first look, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) looks like the perfect rocket: heavy lifting launch vehicle that promises to be more versatile, powerful, and durable than anything that has preceded it. But there are major threats hanging over the rocket stacking the odds against it ever leaving the ground.

Keep reading.

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A comparison of NASA’s rockets puts SLS to scale with existing vehicles as well as the Saturn V and the shuttle. Image credit: NASA

Source: Does SLS Have a Future?

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Gemini Titan IV launch, 1965.

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Apollo 14 clearing the cloud deck.

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Spectacular view of Ariane from top of launch platform, 1979

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JAXA’s M-3SII Satellite launch vehicle

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Went and took this in between classes, a Saturn V rocket here at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL.

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Dat fast

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NASA Hermes A-1 test rocket blasting off in 1950.

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2nd stage of Saturn V rocket being hoisted into position.

fuckyeahspaceexploration:

This is one hella motherfuckin’ awesome piece of rocket.