NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System

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NASA is ready to move forward with the development of the Space Launch System -- an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit. The Space Launch System will give the nation a safe, affordable and sustainable means of reaching beyond our current limits and opening up new discoveries from the unique vantage point of space

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http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/sls1.html

This is rather exciting information.