Infographic: Inside a NASA Rocket Engine
Artist concept of the SLS Block 1 configuration. NASA
The RS-25 rocket engine will one day hopefully help get us to Mars.
NASA's journey to the Red Planet will be a long one. But what will help get the space agency to Mars is the Space Launch System's RS-25 rocket engines.
This engine model has been used before -- in the space shuttle -- but the RS-25 is so effective, according to NASA, it will be providing the SLS, "more lift to orbit than any current launch vehicle."
The RS-25 still needs to be tested, however. NASA has been conducting tests of the engine at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, with the most recent test Aug. 13.
To learn more about the RS-25 engine, check out the infographics from NASA below:
