It was also keen on a proposal to use Virgin's White Knight launch system to put satellites into low Earth orbit.
The Space Launch System will be NASA's first exploration-class vehicle since the Saturn V took American astronauts to the moon over 40 years ago.
Nasa's new Space Launch System (SLS) is a multi-billion-dollar venture to take humans beyond the International Space Station (ISS) and the confines of low-Earth orbit.
"This launch system will create good-paying American jobs, ensure continued U.S. leadership in space, and inspire millions around the world, " NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said.
The Space Launch System, or SLS for short, is NASA's go-to rocket to carry NASA's planned Orion capsule and possibly other future payloads beyond low-Earth orbit.
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Following completion of the current Ares V super-heavy-lift rocket program, the Space Launch System, I believe that the government should commercialize all future launch vehicle development and operations.
The new mega-rocket, called the Space Launch System, passed a series of reviews that laid out the technical, performance, cost and schedule requirements for the heavy-lift booster.
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This servicing plan should free up resources for Nasa to build an astronaut Space Launch System capable of travelling beyond the station, to the Moon, asteroids and to Mars.
The Space Launch System, or SLS, will be designed to carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, as well as important cargo, equipment and science experiments to Earth's orbit and destinations beyond.
CCiCap was devised for the purpose of identifying a complete launch system - not just a crew "taxi", but a rocket to launch it, and all the necessary ground support operation.
To get there, the agency is building the Space Launch System, a colossal rocket capable of putting in orbit all the tonnes of equipment that will be needed on such a venture.
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.
President Bush confirms that "any successor to the D5 system should be compatible, or capable of being made compatible with, the launch system for the D5 missile, which you will be installing into your new submarines".
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While NASA works with U.S. industry partners to develop these capabilities, the agency also is developing the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS), a crew capsule and heavy-lift rocket to provide an entirely new capability for human exploration.
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The Bush Administration has a sluggish, low-key missile defense effort under way: a limited ground-based system deployed in Alaska and California, which won't be much of a deterrent in today's world, and a still underdeveloped sea-based system modeled on the U.S. Navy's Aegis vertical launch system.
Even the shuttle will live on, in some sense, since the Space Launch System the unromantic name of the beefy rocket needed to loft astronauts and cargoes into high orbits or farther into the solar system will be built partly from recycled shuttle parts in an effort to save money and use familiar technology.
If they launch the system alongside Half-Life 3 and some other first-party gems, this could make huge waves.
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Blue Origin has received millions of dollars in NASA funding to develop its commercial space travel program, including a launch escape system.
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Later this year, Lucent, an American telephone company, will launch a system where surfers can have a conversation with a call centre over the Internet.
Nintendo 3DS also enjoys some of the strongest third-party support of any system launch.
In our view, LightSquared has been given inadequate spectrum on which to launch a nationwide system.
With the new-for-2014 launch-control system, the Vanquish is probably capable of hitting 60 miles per hour in about four seconds, as compared with the Ferrari's three flat.
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Verizon Wireless has opened an innovation lab to work with software developers so there will be many new applications that take advantage of the new broadband capabilities at system launch.
Google announced, in a blog post, that it would launch an operating system for personal computers, thus opening a direct assault on Microsoft, which has dominated the market for years.
The flight, perhaps climbing to around 5, 000 miles above the earth, is intended to test the capsule's emergency launch-abort system, as well other systems, and Orion's protection against damage from micro-meteorites.
He missed the start after failing to properly program his car's launch-control system and then, pushing to make up lost time, he touched the back of Fernando Alonso's Renault and was forced into the pits to replace his nose wing before finally finishing 13th.
And yet it is a miracle that Voyager 2 managed to send anything back at all, for its main radio system failed soon after launch, and its back-up system proved to be faulty.
That left only a few months to prepare for the launch of the new system.
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The company is working with the not-for-profit organisation to launch a new operating system based on the Firefox internet browser that Mozilla owns.
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The initial system of launch is invite only to members of the press, and will be tested with user feedback over time to gauge how to expand.
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