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Detailed explanation-1: -SpaceX completed a successful launch of the most powerful rocket in the world, the Falcon Heavy . It’s just the latest successful launch for the rocket, which is expected to help land NASA astronauts on the Moon and potentially even send humans to Mars.

Detailed explanation-2: -Starship will become the most powerful operational rocket system in history when it makes its maiden flight. This could occur in the coming weeks, assuming SpaceX is satisfied with the outcome of Thursday’s test. The static fire took place at SpaceX’s R&D facility in Boca Chica on the Texas/Mexico border.

Detailed explanation-3: -With 8.8 million pounds of thrust, the SLS is 15 percent more powerful than the Saturn V, meaning the SLS now holds the record for the most powerful rocket ever successfully launched. Its thrust is equivalent to nearly all the train engines in the U.S. running at once-some 25, 000 of them-according to NASA.

Detailed explanation-4: -The SLS, a key piece of hardware for NASA’s Artemis moon program, is now the most powerful rocket ever to launch successfully. The huge rocket took the mantle from the iconic Saturn V, which sent Apollo astronauts to the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Detailed explanation-5: -But SLS will be capable of delivering 8.8 million pounds (4 million kg). of thrust, 15% more than the Saturn V’s 7.5 million pounds (3.4 million kg) of thrust, and even surpassing the space shuttle system’s 7.8 million pounds (3.5 million kg).