VIDEO: NASA puts enormous impulse test

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NASA is testing thrust in the Utah desert

11 March 2015 Last updated at 16:38 GMT Clock

The largest rocket ever been dismissed from the test in the desert of Utah, USA.

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Looking at the start of the experiment, Dr. Adam Baker, a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Kingston, told the BBC that although visually stunning, NASA has developed a technology that uses multiple years going back.

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