It is set to become the largest rocket ever built, dwarfing the rockets that took man to the moon and paving the way for manned missions to Mars. Nasa's Space Launch System (SLS) will take America to deep space - and blazed through its first successful test at Nasa's Stennis Space Centre near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The RS-25, formerly the space shuttle main engine, fired up for 500 seconds on the A-1 test stand at Stennis, providing NASA engineers critical data on the engine controller unit and inlet pressure conditions. Scroll down for video Four RS-25 engines will power SLS on future missions, including to an asteroid and Mars.

'We are passionate about
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NASA's mission to explore deep space.


American Simone Biles retained her world women's all-around gymnastics title on Friday, but it wasn't just the other competitors she had to fight off on her way to victory. 17-year-old Biles wrapped up the win after a late challenge from Romania's Larisa Andreea Iordache, but was interuppted on the medals podium when a bee flew out from her flower bouquet. When asked about the incident, Biles told USA Today, 'I don't do bugs.' When Simone Biles realised there was a bee in her bouquet, she threw it away in fear The moment remained light-hearted, as Biles joked with her compatriot Kyla Ross on the podium (right)

Biles stood just 0.133 points clear of the 18-year-old
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Romania going into the final event, floor exercise.


By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor Senator Ted Cruz blasted President Barack Obama on Wednesday for '76 instances of lawlessness and other abuses of power,' in a wide-ranging speech that drew comparisons with Richard Nixon, lashed out at the administration's 'obstruction of justice' on Benghazi and reached its peak with a quote from the cult-classic film 'The Princess Bride.' The Texas tea party darling recalled hearing Obama tell Fox News host Bill O'Reilly during a Super Bowl Sunday interview that there is 'not a smidgen of corruption' related to the Internal Revenue Service's practice of targeting conservative nonprofit groups because of their political beliefs.

Benghazi: A recently revealed
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White House memo said the administration's 'goal was to declare that whatever happened here, it was not the fault of any policy from this administration.