A notable exception is the space shuttle main engine, designed and built by Rocketdyne, at that time a division of Rockwell International. Because most photos of the shuttle show a remote view of ...

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 ...

Space Shuttle Main Engines In 1995, the power head was narrowed from a three-duct injector design to a two-duct one, and in 1998 the combustion chamber’s throat was enlarged. The changes reduced ...

SLS inherited 16 flight units of the former Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) from the Space Shuttle Program to power expendable Core Stages for the first four launches. NASA originally contracted ...

You've likely watched space shuttles launch using massive rockets, but how exactly do the rockets that are the backbone of ...

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.

The Space Shuttle was one of the most complex and ambitious spacecraft ever designed, pioneering reusable spaceflight and enabling decades of missions. With massive solid rocket boosters, advanced ...

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 ...

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