NASA building world's largest solid-fuel rocket

When NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) enters service in 2017, it will replace the historic Saturn V as the largest, most powerful space launch vehicle ever flown. To lift its initial 70-metric ton (77 ton) payload into orbit, the SLS will rely on additional boost from a pair of the largest solid rocket motors ever to be built for flight. The first of these boosters is being assembled for NASA in Bringham city, Utah by ATK Space Systems using new manufacturing methods intended to make these behemoths safer and less expensive... Continue Reading NASA building world's largest solid-fuel rocket