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NASA's Artemis mission finally launches after faulty Ethernet switch delayed countdown

cray74

Aren't those engines Russian by the way?!

No, the SLS's engines are all US-developed and -built. The boosters are 5-segment versions of the shuttle's 4-segment solid rocket engines. The core uses four RS-25 engines, which was a US-developed hydrogen/oxygen rocket used on the shuttle. This SLS flight used an "interim upper stage" with RL-10 engines, a venerable US hydrogen/oxygen rocket.

Basically, the SLS repackages a lot of shuttle hardware and technology.

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