# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/xqAVoyoaJs
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11737882-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2015-01-10T02:16:23.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Fired Up! The new year is off to a hot start for our Space Launch System (SLS). The engine that will drive America's next great rocket to deep space blazed through its first successful test Jan. 9 at the agency's Stennis Space Center (nasastennis ) St. Louis, Mississippi.

The RS-25, formerly the space shuttle main engine, fired up for 500 seconds on the A-1 test stand at Stennis, providing our engineers critical data on the engine controller unit and inlet pressure conditions. This is the first hot fire of an RS-25 engine since the end of space shuttle main engine testing in 2009. Four RS-25 engines will power SLS on future missions, including to an asteroid and Mars.

Image Credit: NASA

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enginetest, stennis, nasa, mars, journeytomars, asteroid, test

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