Granny says we don't need to be spendin' money for a new rocket in this economy... Future NASA rocket to be most powerful ever built 14 Sept.`11 WASHINGTON To soar far away from Earth and even on to Mars, NASA has dreamed up the world's most powerful rocket, a behemoth that borrows from the workhorse liquid-fuel rockets that sent Apollo missions into space four decades ago.
No one said it would be cheap. We can either pay $35 billion or get left behind in the space race again as China overtakes us....Sputnik Part 2.