# NASA’s monstrous moon rocket is an overpriced, political beast

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/nasas-monstrous-moon-rocket-is-an-overpriced-political-beast-2/
- Published: 2022-03-16T09:30:33-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Photo caption: Taller than the Statue of Liberty at 322 feet and weighing 5.75 million pounds, the Space Launch System, or SLS, has 15 percent more thrust than the Saturn V rocket used during the Apollo program. Photo credit: Jude Guidry / NASA / AFP via Getty Images. Article by Elisha Sauers. Mashable – March 12, 2022. As Russian military forces bombarded Ukraine, a congressional committee huddled to discuss progress on Artemis, the ambitious U.S. effort to put astronauts on the moon and Mars. They didn’t discuss the raging war, but global tensions of the hour were certainly in the air. […] Click here to view original web page at mashable.com