For several years now, NASA has been exploring the possibilities of going into deep space and getting not only a glimpse but a search for resources and different forms of life.
After the landing on the Moon in 1969 by the Apollo 11, the United States has tried to push matters further and reach Mars.
In order to do so, they have approved and reviewed this past Wednesday 27th the creation of the Space Launch System (SLS), which has a launching date of November 2018.
The SLS will be the most powerful rocket seen in the entire history up to the moment and what it has to make that possible is a very high payload mass and speed.
The basic significance of these two concepts is that the atmosphere has a certain tension that grows on any aircraft and produces pressure on it. In order to surpass this pressure, there is a volume needed to "break" through the atmosphere. This rocket will have that and much more.
To begin with, the launch stipulated for 2018 will be made by a 70-metric-ton version. It is a smaller version of the rocket and it will permit for the NASA to test the conditions in the atmosphere and how the SLS handles them.
In this first test, astronauts will be sent to a distance slightly further than the Moon to a faraway orbit.
Some words that provide encouragement about following not only through this test, but in a future reaching distant asteroids and Mars were given by Robert Lightfoot, an Associate for the Project, who said "This first launching will keep us on track to send humans to Mars in the period of 2030's and we will stay behind that commitment."
Everyone surely does they do, as this brings us one step closer to discovering the rest of the Universe and all its elements.
