NASA Reworking 40-Year-Old Engine For Human Exploration

Credit: NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
Propulsion engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center are leaning toward an older version of the Rocketdyne J2 engine that powered Apollo missions to the Moon for the upper stage on a new generation of exploration launch vehicles. But even though time is short and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne...

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