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Space Shuttle Engine Testing: T Plus 30 Years and Counting

Thirty years ago there was no Internet, laptop computers or CDs; Gerald Ford was president; “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” was on TV; and “Jaws” was at the movies. But in South Mississippi, NASA ...
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NASA Needs New Space Shuttle Engines Despite No Space Shuttle Still Flying

The Space Shuttle, despite two very traumatizing accidents, is without a doubt one of our species' most successful family of otherworldly vehicles. Introduced in 1981, the family flew a total of 135 ...
Ars Technica

NASA just swapped a 10-year-old Artemis II engine with one nearly twice its age

A couple of weeks ago, ground teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida removed one of the four main engines from the Space Launch System rocket slated to send four astronauts on a voyage around ...
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NASA Tests Space Shuttle Engine That Will Power Moon Mission Five Years in the Future

There has been only one mission of the Artemis program to date, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft that was conducted back in 2022. Judging this solely from this perspective, you could be ...
SpaceNews

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Main Engines Add New Measure of Safety to Space Station-Bound Shuttle

Three Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Space Shuttle Main Engines, fitted with upgraded controllers to actively monitor engine health and performance, powered the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour from ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s Artemis 2 Rocket Runs on Shuttle Engines—Here’s the Story Behind Each One

NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo. The agency’s new era of spaceflight comes with a few parts from its past, ...