equipment for the care and feeding of four uprated Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME). Now called RS-25, Aerojet Rocketdyne had already adapted the engines for SLS; the Green Run campaign that ...

SLS’s initial operating capability uses leftover Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) hardware as the engines for the Core Stage of the vehicle. The Boeing-built Core is a ground-started sustainer ...

Minnesota teen’s space experiment flew aboard Columbia in 1982, revealing how bugs react to weightlessness during shuttle ...

One effect of the short was a loss of power to the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) controllers. According to Hale: "The A computer on the Center SSME lost power, never to be recovered.

Common propellant combinations include liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (used in the Space Shuttle main engines), or solid propellants (used in some rocket boosters). Advanced propulsion ...

STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

After several delays, NASA said Friday that space shuttle Discovery is scheduled for launch in five days. Commander Lee Archambault and his six crewmates are now scheduled to lift off to the ...