NASA undertakes design review of most powerful rocket to date
NASA's mission to build a rocket capable of going to Mars has reached a milestone.
This week the agency kicked off a "critical design review" of the project, known as the Space Launch System, at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Designed to carry crew and cargo to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars, the new rocket will be the most powerful launch vehicle ever built, NASA said.
The purpose of the design review, which started Monday and is scheduled to end in late July, is to demonstrate that the project meets all system requirements with acceptable risk and does it within time and budget constraints, according to the agency's announcement.
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Especially the block 2 version, clocking in bigger and more mt to orbit than the Saturn V.
