NASA Pacing SLS Engine Development To Fit Flat Budget

Credit: NASA Stennis Space Center
NASA will store some rocket engines, slow work on others and study still more as it struggles to squeeze the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) Congress has ordered into a flat $3 billion annual budget for development. Early flights of the SLS will use surplus space shuttle main engines (SSMEs)...

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