NASA starts working on new rocket for deep space missions

NEWSALERT: Tuesday, September 12, 2011 @ 1541 GMT
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NASA ANNOUNCES NEW ROCKET FOR DEEP SPACE MISSIONS
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NASA unveiled the design of its long-awaited post-shuttle super rocket
Wednesday, a gargantuan Saturn 5-class booster intended to propel the
agency's manned Orion crew capsules beyond low-Earth orbit and onto a
variety of deep space destinations ranging from nearby asteroids to Mars.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1109/14heavylift/

ARTIST'S CONCEPTS OF HEAVY-LIFT ROCKET:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1109/14slsimagery/


BY THE NUMBERS: NASA'S SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM
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Billed as the biggest rocket ever built, NASA's concept for a behemoth
heavy-lift booster unveiled Wednesday will initially weigh 5.5 million
pounds, stand taller than the Statue of Liberty and generate 10 percent
more thrust than the Saturn 5 moon rocket produced at liftoff.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1109/14slsnumbers/


NASA EXPERTS TO ASSIST ATK ON COMMERCIAL CREW ROCKET
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NASA and Alliant Techsystems Inc., a leading rocket contractor, announced
Tuesday they will share data and expertise in helping design and develop
the Liberty rocket, a U.S.-European launcher that could haul humans into
Earth orbit by 2015.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1109/13atksaa/


RUSSIA SETS NOV. 12 FOR NEXT MANNED SOYUZ LAUNCH
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Alleviating concerns the International Space Station could be temporarily
abandoned late this year, the Russian space agency has set Nov. 12 for the
next crewed flight of the Soyuz rocket after an unmanned launch of the
normally-reliable booster failed last month.

http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp28/110913dates/


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