The race to space is underway!
The SLS rocket comes with impressive stats, including 15 percent more thrust from its engine compared to Saturn 5 that that propelled the Apollo program. The SLS will generate 8.8 million pounds of thrust and the Orion spacecraft its carrying can travel at speeds greater than 9,000 feet per second, allowing future astronauts to travel further into space than ever before.
The long-overdue launch will be ready for blastoff at the Kennedy Space Center from pad 39B early Monday morning with a 70 percent chance of perfect weather. If mother nature doesn’t comply, the agency has prepared backup dates in early September in the event of a scrubbed launch. If this mission goes well, then NASA’s 2024 lunar orbit will contain four astronauts to prepare the agency for a return to the moon with the first woman to walk on its surface as well as the first person of color.
. “It will blaze a trail that people will follow on the next Orion flight, pushing the edges of the envelope to prepare for that mission.”
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