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If you're visiting Florida, there's no reason why you shouldn't find the time to add the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex ...
NASA followed last week's low-key engine test with the test-firing of a solid-fueled booster at Northrop Grumman's rocket ...
NASA just swapped a 10-year-old Artemis II engine with one nearly twice its age One of the engines on NASA's next Space Launch System rocket requires repairs.
All 135 Space Shuttle Launches happened from Florida. There are two launch pads - 39a and 39b. First the space shuttle is taken to the Orbital Processing Facility (OPF) where maintenance takes place.
Also called Space Shuttle Main Engine, these things were attached in groups of three to the backs of each Shuttle to give the launch rocket's two boosters help get it off the ground.
Opinion The space shuttle that never came home Seventy-three seconds after liftoff, Challenger exploded before millions of American eyes. Here is the story of its final moments.
The key elements that made the shuttle successful was its engines. Produced by a company called Aerojet Rocketdyne, they were called RS-25, or Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME).
The SRMs are the largest part of the SRBs. During the space shuttle program, twin 15-story SRBs would work with the space shuttle main engine to ignite and produce more than 6-million pounds of ...
Each measuring 116 feet in length, the SRMs completed a trek from the Mojave Air and Space port to the Science Center, where they will be part of the permanent Endeavour installation.
The space shuttle’s main engine was mothballed with the program in 2011. Now NASA believes it’s the future of interplanetary travel.
It uses the Space Shuttle Main Engine, now known as the RS-25 engine, built by Aerojet Rocketdyne, while its two extended solid rocket boosters were likewise borrowed from Shuttle.