The launch of the most powerful rocket NASA has ever built was watched by tens of thousands of people. It was a pity that it didn't get off the ground.
The first attempt to launch the SLS rocket was called off just 40 minutes before it was scheduled to lift off. Engineers said the problem was with one of the rocket's engines.
On Saturday, September 3, a second attempt to launch the rocket was scrubbed after engineers spotted a liquid hydrogen leak. The next launch effort won't happen until October at the earliest.
The people who didn't want to leave the Space Coast were able to stay after the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center.
With 1.7 million pounds of thrust at launch, the Falcon 9's fireworks weren't as spectacular as what space fans would've experienced with the larger and more powerful SLS rocket, which deploys an incredible 8.8 million pounds of thrust to help it escape Earth's gravity
The spectacle of the rocket roaring to space on Sunday will likely have made some people want to come back next month for NASA's SLS launch, even though they won't be able to see it in person.
If you didn't have a seat on the Space Coast on Sunday night, this is the rocket that will take you there.
Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/OebHKPE7lu
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 5, 2022
One of the Falcon 9's first-stage boosters has already been used to launch several satellites.
To bring the first-stage booster home so that it can be used for another mission, it is necessary to land it on a barge floating in the ocean. The booster landed on the Just Read the Instructions ship. It was the 40th launch and landing of the company and the 140th landing of a rocket.
The booster made its perfect landing.
Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, completing this orbital rocket booster’s 7th flight pic.twitter.com/2KQJPFZxA0
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 5, 2022
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