What do you need to send humans into Deep Space? Creativity, technical expertise, and a lot of individual components working together simultaneously.
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is designed to take astronauts and cargo to the Moon, Mars, and into Deep Space. It’s a manufacturing marvel, featuring four RS-25 engines that produce 2 million pounds of thrust and powerful rocket boosters that generate 3.6 million pounds of thrust. These components propel an advanced avionics suite, the core stage, and upper stage backbone of the SLS rocket to the incredible speed of 17,000 miles per hour in just over eight minutes.
Years of engineering, development, and testing have delivered NASA’s premier rocket that represents the future of space exploration.