In 2024, NASA plans to send the first humans to the Moon (well, around the Moon) in over 50 years ago. And in order to get the necessary oomph to hurl those ...

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/10288356

A nice brief overview of the SLS program, the history, the potential future, and some of the problems.

Slight caveat at 3:21: SLS only broke the record the “most powerful rocket ever launched successfully”. The N1 was more powerful, but never reached orbit on any of its launches.