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How to watch NASA is currently targeting a two-hour window for the SLS rocket test, starting at 2 p.m. PT on Saturday, January 16. Live coverage of the event will begin at 1:20 p.m. PT on NASA TV, a link to which we’ve embedded at the top of this page. You can also hit this link for the same feed on NASA’s website. Around two hours after the event, the space agency will also broadcast a post-test briefing, so be sure to stick around for that if you want to get all the details on how the test went. … [Read more...] about How to watch NASA’s first four-engine hot fire of its mighty SLS rocket

According to NASA, the SLS is capable of producing a maximum 8.8 million pounds of thrust, “exerting more power than any rocket ever.” This means we can expect to see a spectacular display of booster power this weekend as all four of the SLS rocket’s RS-25 engines fire up together for a full eight minutes in a ground-based test designed to simulate the core stage’s launch performance. … [Read more...] about Watch NASA’s dramatic trailer for Saturday’s SLS rocket hot fire test

The Ascent Abort-2 flight test will test the escape system which a crew would use in the event of an emergency during the launch of an Orion mission. The crew escape system is a module attached the to top of the rocket, and if something goes wrong during a launch, it is designed to be propelled away from the rocket and to safety. … [Read more...] about Watch NASA test the Orion spacecraft’s emergency escape system live

Getting to space is hard. Really hard, in fact. There’s just not a lot of room for error. For every space flight that’s ever gone smoothly, there are dozens of botched missions that remind us how fine the line is between success and failure. To make things worse, when things do go wrong with a rocket launch, it usually doesn’t end pretty. Catastrophic crashes and violet explosions are common, and unfortunately so is the loss of lives. We’ve combed through space flight history and found some of the most massive rocket crashes ever caught on film. … [Read more...] about The worst rocket crashes in history

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