When Tony Mendez looks at a Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), he sees a highly durable, specialized, complex machine that’s done for more than 20 years exactly what it was designed to do: propel the ...

The Space Shuttle was and forever will be a very special vehicle in the history of space exploration. Over the course of three decades starting in 1981, the small fleet of spaceplanes took to the sky ...

Certification testing of Aerojet's new RS-25 engines for missions beginning with Artemis V was completed in April. Credit: NASA Stennis Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies company, says it ...

NASA today issued a Request for Information seeking ideas from educational institutions, science museums and other appropriate organizations about the community’s ability to acquire and publicly ...

FOR LATER: The 15 remaining RD-25D space shuttle main engines are on the way from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where they will be stored until needed to ...

NASA is all about reusing leftover hardware from previous space programs because it helps it save time and money on the new ones. But in few such cases was NASA as good at doing that than it is in the ...

SLS (Space Launch System) uses a 50 year old rocket engine design that now costs $145 million each (not including labor and testing) which is over 300 times more expensive than the more powerful ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 engines, recently passed a critical milestone that put the integrated system to ...

RS-25 prime contractor L3Harris continues to ramp up production of new flight engine hardware at their Los Angeles area facility and final assembly at the Stennis Space Center. NASA certified ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

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