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Epic card · Science
Space Launch System, an Epic card
The Space Launch System is an American two-stage super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used by NASA.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 94
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 190
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 760,000
Ranked #181 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Space Launch System quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Space Launch System card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The rocket first launched in November 2022, carrying the ______ Artemis I mission.
Answer
uncrewed. The rocket first launched in November 2022, carrying the uncrewed Artemis I mission. From the Space Launch System article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Mars. Mars 1,300,000 · Space Launch System 760,000 · Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 600,000 · Alcoholism 370,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The primary launch vehicle for the Artemis program, SLS is designed to launch the four-person Orion spacecraft.
- The rocket first launched in November 2022, carrying the uncrewed Artemis I mission.
- Its only crewed launch has been for the Artemis II lunar flyby in April 2026, becoming the second launch vehicle to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit, after NASA's Saturn V of the Apollo program.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Space Launch System article was read about 760,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 94 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Space Launch System
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Space Launch System (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : https://www.nasa.gov/marshall/, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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