NASA Unveils New Rocket Design

"To push farther out into the solar system — to the moon and beyond, to asteroids, eventually to Mars — NASA unveiled plans on Wednesday for a behemoth rocket that would serve as the backbone of its human spaceflight program for decades.

The finished rocket would be the most powerful ever to rise from the gravitational bonds of Earth.


The megarocket, blandly named the Space Launch System, embodies the space agency's enduring desire to aim far and dream big. "

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/science/space/15nasa.html 

We reached the moon in a NASA rocket over 40 years ago. NASA needs to step on the gas a bit!