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When the Senate approved SLS their requirements were so specific you’d think they were rocket engineers. They wanted 130 tons of lift with an upper stage, liquid fuel engines, solid rocket motor engines, Shuttle and Ares 1 tech reused. "It was like an aerospace industry wish list—because it was."


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