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To: IndispensableDestiny

Thank you for the update.

With Boeing, Aerojet/Rocketdyne and NASA behind the SLS, it will fly. And soon.

And unlike Falcon Heavy, it will be certified for manned flight.

It will carry fully TWICE the load of Falcon Heavy.

Nearly 300,000lbs into LEO. That’s a monster that dwarfs Saturn V.


29 posted on 03/15/2019 4:55:19 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Nearly 300,000lbs into LEO. That’s a monster that dwarfs Saturn V.


no.

Saturn V 310,000 to LEO (90 nmi) or 170 nmi at 30 degrees, 107,100 to TLI


43 posted on 03/16/2019 3:49:34 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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