NASA Tested THE Rocket That Could Get us to the Red Planet - Page 2 of 2

This is more on the stats and the different iterations and what they expect from this thing:

Once it’s finished, the SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built, and it’ll be tasked with driving the Orion spacecraft – which will carry future Mars mission astronauts – to the Red Planet.

In the meantime, NASA has been testing the rocket piece by piece, with the first trial of the booster conducted last March.

That initial trial ran the booster for more than 2 minutes at the top end of its temperature range – 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit) – while this latest test took it down to the bottom end of its range, with the propellant cooled to a chilly 4 degrees Celsius (40 degrees Fahrenheit).

Is that insane or what? Man the movie The Martian just came out and now this thing? Stay tuned for new iterations and videos of this from NASA.

thanks to sciencealert.com for the great info

thanks to NASA for the pic