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Old 8th January 2016 | 05:54
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criticalmass
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It takes about eight minutes for the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen in the main tank to be used up. The solid rocket boosters have a shorter burn time.

Simple logic suggests the figure you quote is somewhat in error.
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