The SLS Vehicle

I recently read an article  over the recent advancement in the building of a new ship by NASA to fly into the depths of space.  (Hyperlink above) This vehicle is not supposed to be ready to orbit earth until 2016.  This new SLS vehicle has selected a design containing solid-fueled, side-mounted boosters that might be substituted with liquid-fueled engines.  Having all these new designs will allow us to travel further out into space.  President Obama signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, which will allow NASA to start working out the ideas and basis of the SLS.  This spacecraft has been commented on looking a lot like the Ares 5, but the SLS could not be completed on the current budget schedule.  With these new ideas from all these different people around the world, eventually NASA will be able to build a vehicle to go into the oblivion of space.  Saying that, I don’t believe this will be one of the few ships they build; but the many.  Supporting this plan for the SLS is all we can hope for because there is a lot of money that has to be funded to build this ship.  Lawmakers said the plan would cost an estimated $1.8 billion dollars in 2011.  Right now, we are on the right track to be back into space by 2016.  As long as the president gives us his moral support and allows us to continue funding space exploration.  There are a lot of things out there that mankind still needs to explore and space is one of the main ones.  We can learn so much more about our world if we explore other stars, planets, or even galaxies.  The SLS is just a start to something bigger and eventually better then what we have done in the past.  Within time we will be much more knowledgeable about space with the help of the SLS vehicle.