NASA’s Next Moon 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.
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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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Media Invited to View Last Planned Space Shuttle Main Engine Test

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center invites journalists to view the last planned space shuttle main engine test scheduled for 2 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, July 29. The 520-second ...
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This Is the First Brand-New Space Shuttle Engine in Years, Not Meant for the Space Shuttle

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 ...
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Brand-New Space Shuttle Engine Fired Up in Mississippi in First Full Duration Test

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 ...
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NASA considering removing particle from shuttle engine screen

NASA is considering whether to remove a tiny particle of debris caught in a pre-valve screen in one of shuttle Discovery's engines that some engineers worry could cause problems if it is dislodged and ...
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Pump, 5500 PSI Liquid Hydrogen, Space Shuttle Main Engine, Cutaway

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Shown here is a cutaway model of the ...