NASA Flies Small Solid-Fueled Aerospike Rocket Nozzles

NASA and the U.S. Air Force have flown two solid-fuel rockets with aerospike nozzles to collect flight data on the inside-out nozzle configuration. In back-to-back flights at the Pecos County Aerospace Development Corp. Flight Test Range in Fort Stockton, Tex., NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center...

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