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A new video reveals what the launches of four famous spacecraft would look like if the rockets were transparent. Seeing how the sausage is made, so to speak, is mesmerizing.This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.Youtuber posted the video, which also includes audio from the four launches, to YouTube earlier this week. Hazegrayart has a number of other animated videos on their page. (This of Launch Complex 39 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida from the artist's page is super cool, too.)From left to right, the video shows NASA's Saturn V rocket, the Space Shuttle, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, and NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The video also shows the different types of propellant used in the rockets. Kerosene RP-1 is shown in red, liquid hydrogen is shown in orange (yellow), and liquid oxygen is shown in blue. Both the Space Shuttle and SLS have solid rocket boosters.More Rocket LustHere's a bit about each rocket shown in the video:NASA's 363-foot-tall is the largest and most powerful rocket the agency has ever sent into space. Designed by Werner von Braun and developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the rocket ferried the Apollo astronauts to the moon and launched the Skylab space station. The weighed over 6 million pounds and could lift 130 tons——into space. Saturn V's first stage included five F-1 engines that burned for 2.5 minutes and generated 7.7 million pounds of thrust. The first stage was by 203,400 gallons of kerosene fuel (red) and 318,000 gallons of liquid oxygen fuel (blue).Read This: The Tale of America's Moon RocketSaturn V's second stage, powered by five J-2 engines, was fueled by 80,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and 260,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and burned for 6 minutes after the first stage was released. The third stage contained a single J-2 rocket that was powered by 19,339 gallons of liquid oxygen and 66,770 gallons of liquid hydrogen. It burned for about 2.5 minutes—enough to lift the vehicle from Earth's orbit and into translunar trajectory.The iconic rocket flew its last mission in 1973.NASA's , which consisted of a crew-carrying orbiter, an external tank, and two solid rocket boosters, was the . NASA ordered a total of five Space Shuttle orbiters: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavor. The 184-foot-long Space Shuttle was designed to carry seven passengers and could haul up to The Space Shuttle's three RS-25 engines and two solid rocket boosters generated and could hoist a into orbit. The Shuttle's orange external tank held tanks filled with liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. After lifting a number of satellites into orbit, including the Hubble Space Telescope, and facilitating the construction of the International Space Station, NASA's Space Shuttle program ended in 2011. Both the Challenger and Columbia Shuttles and their crews were lost in accidents in 1989 and 2003, respectively. In total, NASA's Shuttles .SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Launch vehicle is the only commercial launch vehicle in the video and the . The 229.6-foot-tall rocket weighs more than 3 million pounds and can haul a 140,660-pound payload to low-Earth orbit and a 37,040-pound payload to Mars. The Falcon Heavy launch vehicle has two stages. The first stage consists of three boosters, each of which house nine of the company's Merlin engines fueled by a mixture of kerosene RP-1 and liquid oxygen. In total, the first stage generates over 5 million pounds of thrust at sea level—roughly the equivalent of powering up 18 747 airplanes. Critically, all three of the —a game-changing achievement in spaceflight.Related StoriesThe second stage is powered by a single Merlin engine that's fueled, like the first stage, by a mixture of kerosene RP-1 and liquid oxygen. According to SpaceX, it has a 397-second burn time and can generate around 210,000 pounds of thrust. Falcon Heavy in February 2018, sending perhaps one of the strangest payloads ever—a Tesla Roadster and spaceman (not a real one)—into orbit. In total, the rocket has launched .NASA's consists of a 212-foot-tall core stage with four recycled RS-25 engines powered by a 537,000-gallon liquid hydrogen tank and a 196,000-gallon liquid oxygen tank. The core stage of the first SLS configuration, Block 1, about 209,439 pounds into low-Earth orbit and over 57,320 pounds to the lunar surface.Related StoryEach of the SLS's two polybutadiene acrylonitrile-powered solid rocket boosters can generate about 3.6 million pounds of thrust, bringing the total thrust generated by the launch vehicle to about . The SLS, which has faced , is one of the key components of NASA's Artemis program. Along with the Human Landing System and the Orion capsule, the rocket will send the next crop of astronauts to the moon.WATCH NEXT: POP NewsAdvertisement - Continue Reading BelowAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below

A new video reveals what the launches of four famous spacecraft would look like if the rockets were transparent. Seeing how the sausage is made, so to speak, is mesmerizing.This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.Youtuber posted the video, which also includes audio from the four launches, to YouTube earlier this week. Hazegrayart has a number of other animated videos on their page. (This of Launch Complex 39 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida from the artist's...

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