Developmental CST-100 Launch Abort Engine Makes First Run

Credit: Pratt & Whitney rocketdyne
In the uncertain funded world of human spaceflight, the habit of die-hard propulsion engineers to never throw anything away is becoming increasingly useful as NASA looks for crew transports. Now a derivative of a long-mothballed rocket engine developed for not one, but two, now-canceled programs, is...

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