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Message: [QUOTE="Greenlantern101, post: 79403, member: 1457"] [SIZE=14px][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#333333]The Space Launch System (SLS) will be the most powerful rocket ever built - more powerful even than the Saturn V rockets that put men on the Moon and it will be able to carry 70 tonnes of stuff. The shuttle carried just 22.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=14px][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#333333]The rocket is to take man to an asteroid and then to Mars.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=14px][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#333333]Nasa says the first launch should occur towards the end of 2017.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] Nice wee CGI vid on the Nasa website complete with air shredding sound effects. [URL]http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/sls1.html[/URL] [ATTACH=full]2414[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]