NASA announced yesterday its intended design for a heavy-lift rocket that will to carry astronauts to Mars, appeasing lawmakers irked by a delay in the plan’s unveiling. The new rocket, called the Space Launch System, will work with a crew capsule based on the Orion spacecraft Lockheed Martin [LMT] had developed for former President George W. Bush’s now-defunct Constellation program, which aimed to return astronauts to the moon. Yesterday’s announcement about the heavy-lift rocket advances President Barack Obama’s reworked manned-spaceflight program,…
NASA Unveils Heavy-Lift Rocket Design
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