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Super Hot Fire. 🔥⁣ ⁣ To lift the 5.8-million-pound (2.6-million-kg), 322-foot-high (98-m) Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which is taller than the Statue of Liberty, we needed some powerful boosters. In fact, when our #Artemis I mission launched last month, its boosters produced over 8.8 million pounds (3.9 million kgs) of thrust, which is more than 31 times the total thrust of a 747 jet, or roughly equivalent to the force of 13,000 train engines pushing the rocket off of the launch pad.⁣ ⁣ This gargantuan rocket is necessary to accomplish an equally imposing task—return humanity to the Moon. Simply, this is the most powerful rocket ever built.⁣ ⁣ By the conclusion of the mission, Artemis I will have traveled over 1.3 million miles (2.1 million km) and spent a total of 25 and a half days on its long voyage around the Moon and back to Earth. Along its route, the Orion spacecraft is collecting valuable data in its orbit to support future crewed Artemis missions to the lunar surface. A...

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