By Design

In Dale Jensen’s letter “What NASA Should Be Doing” (AW&ST July 14, p. 10), he displays a basic misunderstanding of rocket engine design when he refers to the “inefficient RS-68.” The RS-68 is a modern, highly efficient booster (first-stage) engine having the same sea level specific impulse as the...

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