Fire up of Deep Space Rocket Booster

The largest, most powerful rocket booster ever built successfully fired up by NASA, on Wednesday.   Watch the video…

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The fire up of Deep Space Rocket Booster, is a major-milestone ground test in preparation for future missions to help propel NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to deep space destinations, including an asteroid and Mars.

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The booster fired for two minutes, the same amount of time it will fire when it lifts the SLS off the launch pad, and produced about 3.6 million pounds of thrust. The test was conducted at the Promontory, Utah test facility of commercial partner Orbital ATK, and is one of two tests planned to qualify the booster for flight. Once qualified, the flight booster hardware will be ready for shipment to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first SLS flight.

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That’s how you make smoke and fire, baby! Yeah!

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