Almost four months after the American space agency NASA installed the first newly built RS-25 Space Shuttle engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, hardware ...
Now that the Space Shuttle missions are ending, NASA is cleaning house. While complete shuttles are for sale at 50 percent off "retail," the deal of the century must be the free engines. These spare ...
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NASA turned a Gulfstream business jet into a space shuttle landing simulator, here’s how it worked
The Space Shuttle had no engines on landing, no go-around, and no second chance, so NASA built a bizarre solution. By converting a Gulfstream II into the Shuttle Training Aircraft, astronauts could ...
20 Years of SLS and Constellation – 50 Years of the Same RS25 Engine and Each One Costs $145 Million
SLS (Space Launch System) uses a 50 year old rocket engine design that now costs $145 million each (not including labor and ...
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 ...
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, ...
When I was an aerospace engineer working on the NASA Space Shuttle Program, trust was mission-critical. Every bolt, every line of code, every system had to be validated and tested carefully, or the ...
Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy.
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