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By Elias
The SLS Rocket or Space launching system is a super heavy lift launch vehicle that has been worked on since 2011. SLS replaces the Continental program Arev V 2005 SLS will give us a safe and affordable way for us to open new doors of discovering space. The SLS weighs 270,000 lbs and is 212 ft tall. It's taller than the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
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The 212-foot-long Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage pathfinder has been offloaded from NASA’s Pegasus Barge at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39 turn basin wharf on Oct. 1, 2019. It is slowly being backed up so that it is in the correct configuration for the move forward to the Vehicle Assembly Building. The Pegasus Barge made its first delivery to Kennedy in support of the agency's Artemis missions. The upgraded 310-foot-long barge arrived Sept. 27, 2019, ferrying the SLS core stage pathfinder, a full-scale mock-up of the rocket's core stage. It will be used by Exploration Ground Systems and its contractor, Jacobs, to practice offloading, moving and stacking maneuvers, using important ground support equipment to train employees and certify all the equipment works properly. The pathfinder will stay at Kennedy for approximately one month before trekking back to NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana. Credit: NASA KSC
The SLS will carry the Orion multi-purpose crew vehicle as well as important cargo equipment and Science experiments into Deep space. The SLS will help NASA provide transportation needed for them to reach further into our solar system, The SLS is the only rocket that can Send Orion Astronauts, and large cargo to the moon on a single mission.
The SLS will be the first super heavy lift vehicle since Saturn V 40 years ago. Since it can lift so much more the SLS will make it so we can go farther into the solar system allowing the astronauts from Orion to explore deep space including near-earth asteroid LaGrange, the moon and ultimately Mars. Engineers are making progress toward delivering the first SLS Rocket to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for its first launch. The SLS is America's rocket with more than a thousand companies across the US and every NASA Center helping to create the world's most powerful Rocket.
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