RD-180 runs 56 seconds in third test of Atlas III stage
A Russian-built RD-180 rocket engine ran for the full 56 seconds late Wednesday in a retry of the Atlas III first-stage ground test aborted by a computer glitch last month. The test at Marshall Space Flight Center marked the third time the engine mounted in an Atlas first-stage configuration had...
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