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Most powerful rocket ever built by NASA scheduled for Mars

NASA unveils plans for a new 400 foot 3,250 ton Rocket that will carry 6 astronauts to Mars.

Rocket Largest by NASA

Coming on the heels off the decommissioning of the space shuttle, NASA has brought back an oldie but a goodie – The Rocket!  The space shuttle was NASA first reusable ship, capable of landing like a normal passenger plane. The new rocket is a version of the original space program where a small capsule has a huge rocket attached to the back of it. Once it launches the fuel tanks and rockets fall to the ocean while the capsule is propelled toward it’s destination. Apparently the new space program vision was to recycle old technology?

The rocket resembles those NASA relied on before the space shuttle, but even its smallest early prototype will have 10 percent more thrust than the Saturn V that propelled Apollo astronauts to the moon. When it is built to its fuller size, it will be 20 percent more powerful, Gerstenmaier said. That bigger version will have the horsepower of 208,000 Corvette engines.

jesse_james208,000 corvette engines? Wait is Jesse James the head of NASA now? No not the gunslinger, the one who cheated on Sandra Bullock. It is a huge ambitious project which is estimated to cost over $35 billion. That’s $35,000,000,000 or for those of you counting 9 zeros. We are glad to see the government spending its money in the right place. Space is truly where our vision and future should be. If not to explore and expand for the rising population, than to protect the dangers we know will someday come. I’m pretty sure we are unprepared for an asteroid impact, all we have so far is a hole in a mountain for the president. The other 8.9 billion are out of luck.

What’s the plan with new rocket:

MARSNASA is trying to remain flexible on where it wants to go and when. The space agency is aiming for a nearby asteroid around 2025 and then on to Mars in the 2030s. There could even be a short hop to the moon, but not as a main goal. All those targets require lots of brute force to escape Earth’s orbit, something astronauts have not done since 1972.

back-to-the-future-shoesMars is still an underwhelming goal. Let’s face it who thought we wouldn’t be on Mars by the year 2012? By now Mars was suppose to have a gas station on it for your day trips to a planet that’s not red, boring and crappy. Let’s aim for somewhere a little nicer. NASA is way behind the expectations Hollywood has set for us. At least Nike has finally invented the Marty Mcfly shoes from “Back to the Future”. Next up is those floating skateboards.

Get cracking Tony Hawk!

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