Kazakhstan is a modern, secular state promoting ethnic and religious diversity and tolerance. VOA's Valer Gergely reports from Kazakhstan that Islam, Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Jewish and other religions peacefully coexist in the republic.
New SLS Core Stage Pathfinder ready; will help NASA prepare to launch largest rocket ever The Core Stage Pathfinder is 228,000 pounds of steel. It's 212 feet long and 27.6 feet in diameter. CORDOVA, Ala. â North Alabama continues to play a big role in helping America return to human deep-space exploration.
SLS, scheduled to be ready for flight by November 2018, will be the biggest rocket ever made, CS Monitor says. With SLS' higher performance, NASA plans to have the rocket go on its first unmanned test launch in 2018 and have humans take it to orbit around an asteroid, landing on Mars by 2030, The Verge reports. It also should have the capabilities to send astronauts deeper into space than ever before according to CS Monitor.